Well, algebra! Screw algebra!
And I would love to be there when the first kid notices that one version of the Crucifixion has Jesus contentedly dispatching his soul to God, and another has Him saying “What the fuck did you do to me, Dad?”
Is Algebra a elective?
Would that be part of Bible as Literature?
Misread what I was responding to.
Considering who’s pushing this, I’d wager it’s an end-around to McCreary County. But it could backfire. What if Kentucky kids learn enough about the Bible to understand the vast disparity between Jesus’ teachings and the the policies GOP lawmakers ostensibly base on them?
Between the churches and the teachers they will probably hire to promote their agenda, I’m pretty sure indoctrination will win out in the long run.
Yeah, they’ll probably harp on all those time Jesus condemned homosexuals … oh, wait …
On the SDMB, this should never stop anyone.
Maybe so, but I bet some of the kids will give the teachers a run for their money. Much like the internet has leveled the playing field, out of a church setting and into a public school, even against a stacked deck, I’m sure there will be some kids not lobbing softball type questions, and may even know more about the subject manner than they do. And unlike church where they have the right not to have them back, they can’t deny the kid an education.
Yeah, but its still goes on their Permanent Record.
If it’s just an elective, what does this act even do? Schools have always been allowed to have a Bible-as-literature class.
It allows elected persons to solemnly point to their vote. Alas, prayer in the school is not permissible due to the Muslim Atheist Homo agenda. But they did what they could!
We really ought to just call their bluff. Sure, OK, a prayer to start every school day! All you guys gotta do is gather together the Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, Mormons and Pentecostals, get them all to agree on the same prayer. Soon as you got that, you win, we give up.
And once the Christians have settled on a single prayer they can then send a delegation to reach agreement with the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, Baha’i, Yazidi, Asatru etc. representatives.
Other than getting it specifically on the books, I would say this (as posted earlier) is the real purpose -
The open display of iconography …
Well, OK, but Scientology is still right out!
Which is legal as part of a historical display that include stuff like the Code of Hammurabi, Magna Charta and so forth.
I can just imagine the fights that will break out. How are the 10 Commandments grouped and numbered? Is it “kill” or “murder” that is prohibited? What translation do they choose? Do you include the Roman Catholic Apocrypha?
There are probably a dozen stories in the Bible that would be nice for anyone in Western countries to know: Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge, Noah and the flood, Abraham and his son, Soddom and Gomorra, Exodus, etc. A lot of good sayings (eye for an eye), but slogging through the begats to get there would be tedious.
It’s ironic that the US is one of the most, if not the most, religious of the developed countries even though we have freedom of religion baked into our constitution. To me it’s not despite that fact, it’s because of it. Cram religion down people’s throats and they will rebel.
Is that the reason you think that it was included?
Cite? And no cherry picking with “developed” .
Turkey is certainly a developed nation. How about Israel? Or France. Italy. Portugal. Brazil. Saudi Arabia.
We actually rank in about the middle.
You’ve summed up their disingenuousness nicely. Why, we’re not displaying the Ten Commandments as a religious icon! It’s just part of a course! And see, the students made their own versions of the stone tablets out of clay! Didn’t they do a nice job? And this one here is on display because the kid did such a nice job writing John 14:6 in calligraphy: "“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light. No one gets to the Father except through Me.” It had nothing to do with religious messages we want to get across!
And then there’s this:
Translation: Don’t sue us! Sue each of the schools!
The ACLU cites specific districts in which these instances occurred.
Try doing that with the Magna Carta.