Should the bible be taught at school?

[Dale]

Have you seen the exam questions... they get you (pretty much) to repeat the christian ideals and why you should beleive in god.

THEY DON'T - ask you what your opinion is, and grade you on whether you have a valid and well thought out opinion on the matter.

Damn government

[saben]

Although im Christian, i don't think it should be taught at schools. I think the resources should be provided so a student could learn about creation and the bible and what we believe, but i do not think they should teach it in science classes. Because then you got people trying to mix them and the bible will never be proved through science. Also public schools would not longer be getting funding because of seperation between church and state, so the less wealthy will have more troubles founding education because it will be all privately funded schools. Which jacks up the prices.

And the US was founded on religious freedom, not the bible. Thus the reason there is seperation between church and state because they didn't want to be ruled under another pope again. So making someone learn religion would be going against our freedom. And we would no longer be the "land of the free" in its purest sense.

[Afterburn]

I say yes because in my social studies class a few years ago, we learned about the Koran, the Torah, and other religious books and whanot. So yeah, my opinion is yes on the entire ordeal.

[saben]

Yes but i am more then positive they didn't teach about it for over 2 days, and if they did it wasn't in depth. What we are talking about is like a whole course on it. That would contradict evolution. Unlike when you learned it you didn't learn all the teachings, just the main idea.

[Dale]

You can't have learnt that much because it's spelt with a Q :P Quran i beleive =)

[carrotderek]

Spellings don't matter It can be spellt whichever way its pronounced. Its ambigious.

If they're going to teach religious texts, make it a post-secondary course or something. You shouldn't HAVE to learn it.

[saben]

And you also have to look it from other points of views, if we were to teach creation and the bible, why would we also teach about other ancient religious books? Im all for the teaching of the bible, but not it being forced onto people. Because, how would you like it if you had to learn muslim texts? Or jewish teachings, or catholism? I know i wouldn't much like it. There are many ways to spread the gospel, i just don't think one way should be through public schools.

[carrotderek]

I don't think we should 'spread' anything. Even IF the bible was to be taught in public schools, it should taught on the basis of interpretation and analysis.

Many colleges/universities have courses where they study religious texts. Its not whether they are forcing you to believe it or anything, studying the texts provides insight on culture.

[SgtSwabs]

Lol my friend Alex got predicted an A for his RE GCSE's whereas i got predicted a B and guess what Alex (who mucks around in class and pisses the teacher off alot) just happens to be a christian! Also our RE teacher looks like jesus.

[demo]

I personally believe that the Bible shouldn't be taught at school. There's way to many different cultures/religions that go to school to just teach the Bible.

I would hate to go to a school that taught us the Bible, because I don't believe in a God or the Bible. It would be like going to Church every day of my life.