Meanwhile, in Kentucky
Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 8:07 pm
Just read this, happening in Kentucky.
https://religionnews.com/2017/07/07/ken ... 3408101968
it's written from a critical pov, i believe, and hope, unnecessarily critical.
i do not see how children can have any sort of balanced education while ignoring the Bible, and its history. for me, it's demanding/mandating deliberate ignorance. that ignorance is displayed daily on the world stage. there certainly is room for improvement.
i don't see the necessity of using the word, "shrewd," for a governor to use existing law (law that many-most are aware of, regardless of what this author writes) to expand public school education - through an elective course.
"Christian nationalist agenda," is, also, rather heavy-handed language.
i'm interested in learning more about this in Kentucky. weeding through the criticism, it sounds reasonable. i am weary of deliberate ignorance as a national policy.
i do understand the threat, tho.
when children are given balanced information, they just might use it.
https://religionnews.com/2017/07/07/ken ... 3408101968
it's written from a critical pov, i believe, and hope, unnecessarily critical.
i do not see how children can have any sort of balanced education while ignoring the Bible, and its history. for me, it's demanding/mandating deliberate ignorance. that ignorance is displayed daily on the world stage. there certainly is room for improvement.
i don't see the necessity of using the word, "shrewd," for a governor to use existing law (law that many-most are aware of, regardless of what this author writes) to expand public school education - through an elective course.
"Christian nationalist agenda," is, also, rather heavy-handed language.
i'm interested in learning more about this in Kentucky. weeding through the criticism, it sounds reasonable. i am weary of deliberate ignorance as a national policy.
i do understand the threat, tho.
when children are given balanced information, they just might use it.
thoughts?.. But what many fail to recognize is that Abington v. Schempp did not completely remove the Bible from schools. Consider Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark’s majority opinion:
“It might well be said that one’s education is not complete without the study of comparative religion or the history of religion and its relationship to the advancement of civilization. It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its religious and historic qualities. Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistent with the First Amendment.”