NEWS: Bible Classes! DURING SCHOOL!

Hey, from the mouths of babes.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

heheheh

hoooo

*wipes tears*

Someone gets upset + Christianity is what upset them = News.

I agree, it should be off campus. Better yet, teens in highschool who have a christian family should have already been taught their scriptures before they were even in high school.

And I disagree that using religion is the only way to teach morality, but on the same token what methods of teaching morality did you really have in school? Sex Ed? Math class? "Be nice to someone you hate" Day? The solution is obviously not putting up the 10 commandments. no one is going to look at them and say,

"Hmm... Oh! It's 'Thou Shalt not Kill!' I didn't know that!" If you haven't learned that little moral nugget by the time you get into high school, you've got bigger problems than the bible thumpers going to their own little class. Just like a person's faith, Morality should be taught to people before they are in high school.

But the whole thing is "passing the buck. Parent's aren't gonna teach their children; so they want the teachers to. Teachers are pretty much babysitters with curriculum, and they aren't gonna teach morals. Society as a whole pretty much assumes that it's the other guy's job to teach values... if they believe that values exist at all.

Heh. I went to a christian school for a year where they had bible classes once a day. I got a credit in bible. Shit didn't help me out any.

Either I'm misreading you or youre missing the point. The point is that that the state is footing the bill. They are providing the physical campus on which private religious instruction is being provided and they are doing it during the school day. The taxpayers of Virginia, oddly enough, kind of have a right to expect that the schools they pay for are used for, you know, school, especially during school hours. Whats more, school in this country is roughly six hours a day 180 days of the year leaving ~4730 waking hours outside of school to learn all about Jesus. I think thats plenty of time.

Fuck. Is it too much to ask that publicly funded schools use the time and resources they've been allotted to teach our children science, or math, or critical thinking skills, or to address any of the countless other curricular deficiencies in our education system, rather than wasting time and resources indoctrinating them in the dubious morality of the bible - the same book, mind you, in which, for example, the Hebrew god etches "thou shalt not kill" in stone shortly before telling his people to purge all the nonbelievers out of their new promised land?

BFD. Is it required? No? Then so what? There were elective bible classes in my public high school. I wasn't interested, so I didn't take them.

Some colleges REQUIRE incoming freshmen to read the Koran. IN North Carolina, if I remember right. Some elementary school have field trips to mosques and Islam immersion courses. Yet this doesn't freak out knee-jerk liberals who recoil at any vestige of Christianity in public spaces.

I don't think you are misreading. I should have read the articles. I was misled by these remarks.

It is an inefficient use of taxpayers' money? Thats a good reason.

Sources, please?

i find that hilarious and scary at the same time.

OMG....that's my home town!!!
The state director....my 4th grade teacher! WOW!!

I went to WRE (Bible Class) once a week...they sent home a permission slip at the beginning of school....if your parents didn't sign it, you stayed in your normal class room and just goofed off for 45 minutes!!

I spent a month in Staunton and hung out with a lot of kids there. They thought it was hell. nothing to do. they were all on really hardcore drugs.

Feeling like resurrecting old threads tonight?

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