Should public schools have Bible classes?
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Yeah, that's a good decision, lets have a class where students have to study and learn all about a book filled with ideas, opinions, principles, and dogmas that stopped progressing some 2000 years ago... and then we can make hundreds or thousands of other classes where kids can pore over other books and texts just as useless... ...wait... Side: No
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They are using a book that has stopped progressing. When you have a scientific text that makes a factual statement, and it turns out at a later date that statement was false and we learned something new about it, the book gets revised and re-released. That doesn't happen with the Bible, or with any holy text. The words themselves cannot change as we learn and progress. Side: Yes
I think public schools have done just fine without bible classes. We've had more school shootings, bad behavior is off the chart, more suicides, less respect for authority figures, students feeling more entitled to just be given grades, etc. if we went back to teaching the bible it would ruin a lot of what we have worked so hard to weed out of society over the last 30 years. Side: No
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To be fair I do support a "world religions" elective merely because religion does exist and it is valuable understanding it, (especially if you are going into some sort of humanities) it is a valuable tool understanding people's baseless beliefs, I think it should be taught non-biasly honestly, or if it is bias it should be considered some form of mythology, as it would if we lived in a secular world. I would also argue there are reasons of learning about mythology since myths have existed, and played a role in history. Side: No
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