Flailing in frustration.

Flailing in frustration. We had a junior/senior English elective available called ‘the bible as literature’ at my high school and that’s exactly what it was. Not religion other than context of versions of it in English. Not some stealth indoctrination.

This crap is a bald faced attempt to move Sunday school and parochial and private religious instruction, complete with bias of choice, into the public schools. Public schools are not the place for your religious political agenda. Which is clearly not America as envisioned by the founders since they knew what interwoven religious institutions as temporal powers and authorities had caused in Europe.

https://www.wivb.com/news/national/trump-backs-push-for-bible-classes-in-schools/1734080748
https://www.wivb.com/news/national/trump-backs-push-for-bible-classes-in-schools/1734080748

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  1. Amy YoungFebruary 1, 2019 at 12:04 AM

    “Look, Donny-boy, we’ll let you make a case for Bible classes in school if and when you demonstrate you could pass one.”

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  2. Jasper JanssenFebruary 1, 2019 at 2:47 AM

    Comparative religion would be OKish but it really would have to handle all the religions, and of course it wouldn’t.



    Now I have a confession to make: during my six year high school career, spent at the Christelijk Gymnasium Utrecht (which, in the Dutch code words, means Protestant[1]) we had (pretty much on alternating years or something) one hour a week of either comparative religion or civic education. Both were given by the reverend D. Werkman, which... I mean, he was a hippie (call me Douwe), but he was still a preacher — he actually had a congregation at least some of those years. We certainly seemed to cover the civics stuff and we did some stuff on various religions, but I think we may have focused a bit more on.. let’s call it the Judeo-Christian heritage... than might have been entirely justified. The amount of times we watched Life of Brian and Jesus Christ Superstar in class over those six years... they were kind of his go-to “you guys are thoroughly distracted today because (graduation stunts are happening or whatever) so there’s no point actually trying to teach” day.

    [1] I was educated for a few years at the public primary school, then another 4-5 years at the catholic primary next door, and then the aforementioned 6 years at a Protestant school.

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  3. F-L SilverFebruary 1, 2019 at 7:20 AM

    We have plenty of religious based or affiliated or a number of other flavors of education in this country but they aren’t the public schools. At least, they aren’t supposed to be.

    This is not about teaching about religion and culture to learn about other people. We had various comparative religion learn other people’s histories and stuff, too. Also ok because not about indoctrination.

    What this is really about is a minority interpretation of religion as white cis male hetero chauvinist misogynist xenophobic nationalist supremacist add your adjective here extreme
    Conservative anti any authority other than the ones appointed by god per us because even tho we’re not god he (very specifically he) told us just us who should be in charge and we are working for god and who he wants in charge (per us). See also: indoctrinate ‘em while they’re young and they’re yours for life.

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  4. F-L SilverFebruary 1, 2019 at 1:27 PM

    How you heard it growing up:

    Jesus loves the little children
    All the children of the world
    Red, brown, yellow
    Black and white
    They are precious in His sight.
    Jesus loves the little children
    Of the world.

    The Trump era version:

    Jesus employs the little children
    All the children of the world
    Red, brown, yellow, black as night
    They’re all working for the white.
    Jesus loves the little children of the world.

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