Georgia to teach Bible Classes.
With the approval of the curriculm by the state school board, Georgia may become the first state in the USA to offer public-funded Bible classes in high school. A handful of other states have passed similar laws. Muscogee County will be the first to offer classes covering the New and Old Testament. Muscogee, home of Fort Benning and the SOA/WHINSEC (School of Americas/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) may be the county most in need of religious and spiritual guidance. Maybe they'll invite Father Roy Bourgeois, of SOA Watch, to help teach the courses.
I do just love it when Georgia is in the headlines...
Comments (7)
Does this mean we can bring these guys in to work with the kids? Us Demoncrats have been waiting for this!!!
Posted by Iggy![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/nav-commenters.gif)
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May 2, 2007 8:53 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 08:53
I don't mind teaching religion in public schools if it's truly an academic endeavor and they teach Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism... The world would be better off if we all understood each other a little bit better.
Posted by Jen B.![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/nav-commenters.gif)
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May 2, 2007 9:46 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 09:46
Catherine, you must be joking about Fr. Roy... he's a ( whisper here) Catholic priest, a idol worshiping papist loyal to Gods messenger on earth- Ratzinger with his Gucci glasses and Prada shoes... tsk tsk, they'll never invite him in he's not even "christian"...
Posted by Jules![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/nav-commenters.gif)
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May 2, 2007 9:54 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 09:54
These bible courses are going to be a mess. "Christian" like "Family Values", has no unified definition, well it does, but it is self-referential and unhelpful. There are going to be a whole lotta Christians arguing about what is being taught in this class.
Posted by Mouth of the South![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/nav-commenters.gif)
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May 2, 2007 9:56 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 09:56
The irony of this whole thing is that to pass Constitutional muster, they are going to have to place the Bible on the same footing as every other important literary text - like the works of Shakespeare or Jane Austen or Greek mythology. If I were a Bible-thumping fundamentalist, I would be pretty upset with the idea of a secular approach to the Bible being institutionalized in the public schools.
FWIW, we had a comparative religions class in my public high school. It was really popular.
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May 2, 2007 10:09 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 10:09
Comparative religion courses are considerably different than a new testament class. As I recall the Comparative Religion course was a requirement in one of the colleges (Willam James College) on my cluster college campus - I was a student at Thomas Jefferson College - where we had no requirements. Yeah, more about that sometime...
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Posted by CatherineAtlanta![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.blogfordemocracy.org/nav-commenters.gif)
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May 2, 2007 10:54 AM
Posted on May 2, 2007 10:54
Comparative religion courses are a good idea - at the collegiate level. There you have people who actually want to be there to learn - are paying to be there to learn. In high schools, you have captive audiences. And the bullshit caveats about it being an "elective" class are just that: bullshit! In this state, where the level of religion is proportionate to the level of republicanism (or stupid republicans voting the way their preacher tells them to), this class is a dangerous thing. Let's crank out some more "values voters" at an even earlier age.
Rest assured that FutureDem will be homeschooled if these classes are an option in our county.
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May 2, 2007 12:10 PM
Posted on May 2, 2007 12:10