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05-12-2006, 03:13 PM
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Bible 'history' in public schools? A great idea? Please pray.
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The long-dormant idea of teaching public school students about the literary and historic importance of the Bible is getting a fresh look this year from state legislatures and local school boards — though with political bickering and questions about what should be included.
The buzz results mostly from “The Bible and Its Influence,” a glossy high school textbook with substantial interfaith and academic endorsements. It’s available for the coming school year, and some 800 high schools are currently considering the course.
The publisher, the Bible Literacy Project of Front Royal, Va., will issue a teacher’s edition next month and is providing online teacher training through Oregon’s Concordia University. The group expects no legal problems, but is promising school districts worried about lawsuits that Washington’s Becket Fund for Religious Liberty will supply attorneys without charge.
Bible Literacy isn’t alone in the field. Its older rival, the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools of Greensboro, N.C., is backed by numerous conservative Protestant activists and says 36 new clients have adopted its program this year, compared with just a couple per month in 2005. Overall, the group says school districts in 37 states with 1,250 high schools use its curriculum.
The National Council believes the Bible should be students’ only textbook. It offers teachers a course outline, “The Bible in History and Literature,” and a CD-ROM of “The Bible Reader,” a 1969 anthology of texts and commentary. The outline follows the King James Version and recommends the conservative Protestant Ryrie Study Bible for further background.
High court opened door
Both efforts pursue an opening created by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a notable 1963 ruling, the court banned ceremonial Bible readings in public schools but allowed “objective” study of the text in a manner divorced from belief.
“The Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities,” the court said.
Last month, Georgia’s Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a law that sanctions but doesn’t require Bible courses, and directs the state education department to pick a curriculum by February. Legislators are mulling similar proposals in Missouri, Tennessee and Alabama.
In Alabama, Republicans have killed a Democratic proposal specifying use of Bible Literacy’s textbook after conservatives complained to Republicans about its pluralistic approach.
“To some extent, this is about Democrats trying to get religion, and certain Republicans trying to spread religion,” says Mark Chancey of Southern Methodist University.
Representing the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, Duke University law professor Erwin Chemerinsky charges that Georgia is “clearly violating” the First Amendment with “state-sponsored religious promotion” both through Bible classes and another law allowing Ten Commandments displays. At Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a spokesman finds it “deeply worrisome” that a “religious pressure group” like Bible Literacy is promoting coursework.
Americans United cites religious activities of Bible Literacy Chairman Chuck Stetson, an Episcopalian and New York entrepreneur, who co-edited the textbook. The National Council’s course outline is anonymous, and President Elizabeth Ridenour declines to state her religious affiliation.
Content still controversial
The National Council’s Web site features attacks on Bible Literacy from conservatives, including megachurch pastors John Hagee of San Antonio and D. James Kennedy of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Hagee calls the new textbook “a masterful work of deception, distortion and outright falsehoods” that would leave pupils “greatly damaged.” Kennedy says it would be “a tremendous mistake to impose such very anti-biblical material.”
Other conservatives disagree. Bible Literacy won endorsements from a lineup of evangelical scholars and leaders including Charles Colson, who says, “I do not see how any of its content would work to undermine one’s faith.”
The National Council also faces attacks, particularly a scathing 32-page report last year by SMU’s Chancey that was sponsored by the liberal Texas Freedom Network and endorsed by 187 religion professors.
Chancey branded the National Council version he examined “a sectarian document” that promoted primarily conservative Protestant views, lacked input from scholars in other faith traditions and is inappropriate for public schools. The class outline has since been revised somewhat.
The National Council notes in response that its “Bible Reader” was compiled by two Protestants, a Roman Catholic priest and a rabbi, and cites support from several Catholics and an Orthodox rabbi.
Bible Literacy’s textbook tries to sidestep sectarian disputes.
Its textbook is designed to fit with a 1999 agreement it helped broker on coursework and other issues regarding the Bible in schools. That pact was endorsed by, among others, seven major public school organizations, four Jewish and three evangelical groups and the National Council of Churches.
Asked to answer the barbs from the National Council, Bible Literacy spokeswoman Sheila Weber said: “With 8 percent of the nation’s schools offering coverage of the Bible, there’s plenty of room for different kinds of projects.”
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05-12-2006, 07:59 PM
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It sounds like it could be watered down Gospel. That is probably what D. James Kennedy and John Haggee are concerned about. There are some good, Christian "leaders" who say Harry Potter is OK, too, Chuck Colson being one.
I so clearly remember what D. James Kennedy said about the book, "Why do Bad Things Happen to Good Poeple?" He turned it around into, "Why do good things happen to bad people?" In other words, no man doeth good, no not one.... It's great to put the Bible in school. But how watered down? How much truth will really get through? Or will they generalize it? Say it's good to forgive, but not that only God can give you the power to truly and really forgive? Etc.
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Lord, You alone know Your plan here. Send revival to this nation so students will chose to study the Bible on their own. Make this nation's youth hungry for You and Your Word. There is a famom for Your Word among our youth, so send a desire for Your Word to our children. I pray that our schools will be filled with students on fire for God who will turn their shcools upside down. Let Bible studies be instigated, where Your Word is discussed and studied in a real, life-changing way, not in the watered down version this curriculum may offer. Even if this is instated in shcools, You can use it as the seed that will make youth want to study Your Word more indepth. Let them see something in The Word that makes them hungry to know and read more. Let the TRUE WORD OF GOD change the lives of teens. In Jesus Name, I ask and pray, amen.
~JeriRose~
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05-12-2006, 11:35 PM
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Personally I do not believe it is the school or governments place to teach our children about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit... that is the honor and priviledge of their parents, grandparents and other family members.
I do not want heathens, pagans, atheists, buhddists, hindus, mormons, jehovahs witnesses, or muslims teaching any child about God.
And please don't tell me about all the kids who would not hear any other way about God! God makes sure that every person ever born hears the Word and they are al given the chance to accept or reject Jesus! We do not need unbelievers perverting the Word that is supposedly passed through these classes.
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06-12-2006, 07:47 PM
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I ask Father God that you will burden Christians to pray about this situation and that your perfect will be done in Jesus name.
Father you know what is in this book and whether it is a watered down gospel or if your truth would be comprimised and i ask you that you take complete control of this situation for you know best.
I plead the blood of Jesus over this Lord and that you would protect our school aged children Father and that nothing else would be taught that would or could be destructive to them spiritually or that would bring anymore reproach to your holy name.
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07-03-2006, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by JeriRose12
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Lord, You alone know Your plan here. Send revival to this nation so students will chose to study the Bible on their own. Make this nation's youth hungry for You and Your Word. There is a famom for Your Word among our youth, so send a desire for Your Word to our children. I pray that our schools will be filled with students on fire for God who will turn their shcools upside down. Let Bible studies be instigated, where Your Word is discussed and studied in a real, life-changing way, not in the watered down version this curriculum may offer. Even if this is instated in shcools, You can use it as the seed that will make youth want to study Your Word more indepth. Let them see something in The Word that makes them hungry to know and read more. Let the TRUE WORD OF GOD change the lives of teens. In Jesus Name, I ask and pray, amen.
~JeriRose~
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