Texas..... I'm ready to let them secede as long as Austin can stay in the nation... sort of like Berlin.  As a public high school student, I studied the Bible, among many other sacred texts, in an elective English course called "Mythologies of the World". I believe that's exactly where the topic belongs in a public school. Amen to that Popped for comments. @ Socratoad:Seconded. There are an awful lot of the people in this country and in the world that would disagree with both of you. I think Texans would probably deep fry the Bible if they could. None for me thanks...diet ...you know  Exactly... That's the way it should be. Everybody should be able to have a choice. Too bad the ACLU is trying to prevent it. And Dulois, if you studied the Bible as a myth in your high school, what else would you expect but to conclude it as a myth? The title of this clip makes me think that they should drop the bible part and focus on literacy by itself in schools, and this is by no means restricted to Texas or indeed America. Jay, I was introduced to the Bible as a holy text by my parents and the church well before high school. You also seem to assume in your comment that I seriously lack critical thinking skills. I'm surprised Texas didn't mandate that the Bible literacy courses be part of archeology courses. Look, there's one of the apostles sandals interlaced with those T-Rex bones. They must have both gone down in a tar pit as he was riding it. Good one Bobby Dulios, I did not try to attack your critical thinking skills and I apologize if you misunderstood it that way. To be clear, you said the course was called "Mythologies of the World" and if you are studying the Bible as a myth, then that is what is going to be taught to you with that titled subject. I had no idea your previous knowledge of the Bible. You may want to study it as a holy text as it is before calling it a myth. Since holy texts are part and partial of cultural mythos studying that way in an academic setting is not incorrect. Now if one is in Sunday School or the Seminary, that's a different story. And even in many Seminary schools they do study the Bible with an eye on it's cultural and historical roots. When Children are exposed to that which they cannot fully understand it is nothing less than indoctrination. It should be left out of schools. If religion is the "one true path" then what are all the religious folk so scared of? Surely if it is the way the light, blah blah blah, the lost sheep will find their way back to the flock. But for pitys sake let them make up their own minds when they are able to do so and not before. "You may want to study it as a holy text as it is before calling it a myth."Or, you could study it as history and call it Swiss cheese. It never ceases to amaze me when people have studied the Bible all their lives like studying a specimen under the microscope. Some even have earned Doctors degrees. It has been scrutinized, analyzed, verified, and concluded to be the real thing. Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about it over centuries. Then, all of a sudden, we get "experts" who decide it is all a myth. You make a quick judgment on something you know almost nothing about, yet your eternity hinges on it. Amazing. A doctorate for studying religion when you believe it yourself is as pointless as a flame proof candle. If you do not study something objectively the study is worthless. The bible is CANNOT possibly be the word of god, even if he/she/it did exist, as some claim, it is the creation of a process of Chinese Whispers and Misheard Fables. It has been written & re-written so many times by so many people, with so many different agendas, That there is no longer anything left of any original message. Whatever that may have originally been. On each bible through the age you see proof of this look on the front of the current one, there is a damn good chance it says King James' version or something... I am not trying to be sarcastic, infowarrior, but the more I read of your reasons for discounting the bible, the more I can see your ignorance of it. Not to worry, its your democratic right to believe in whatever sky fairy you wish. Jay why don't you address the new evolution.....er, I meant revision of the Bible. Literals and scholars cannot agree on the new revisions which are designed to make the Bible more accessible to more people (read a better recruiting manual). Everything Infowarrior said is 110% correct. When does reading the Bible produce strife among Christians? When a revision of the text is undertaken. So hold onto your hats as an updated version of the New International Version of the Bible (the bestselling Bible in North America) is prepared for release in 2011.
They keep believing, we keep evolving. BobbyRutan: I have heard of this latest... development of the bible, as far as I remember it will amount to some 14,000 changes to "bring it up to date". don't quote me on that as it was a while ago. |
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