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February 11th, 2011
07:55 AM ET
Kentucky Senate passes bill to teach Bible classes in public schoolsFrom CNN Louisville, Kentucky affiliate WLKY Frankfort, Kentucky - Bible classes could be taught in Kentucky public schools under a bill that's made it halfway through Kentucky's legislature. State Senator Joe Bowen wants Kentucky public school students to have an opportunity to take classes about the Bible. "No doubt about it, the most important book ever written and obviously, it's had so much influence on our society and all of western civilization," Bowen said. Last year, former State Senator David Boswell introduced the same bill. It passed the Senate, but died in the house. Bowen defeated Boswell last November. Read the full story from CNN Louisville, Kentucky affiliate WLKY.
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What a joke. I as-sume this means there will be a class teaching the Koran? No? The South strikes again... I hope there are some taxpayers with their heads not buried in the sand who will stop this slap in the face to the separation of church and state.
Godless, your feathers do seem to be getting ruffled.
Amen.
As someone has said:
"Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church."
Observer,from your post doesn't look like you're much of a thinker anway!!
Observer,
""Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church."
Love it!
Observor, what school do you own and where is it located? I didn't know we had an owner of a school on this blog.
I learn something new every time I read your postings.
> I didn't know we had an owner of a school on this blog.
Allow me to translate from moron to english: I take issue with your point but am unable to respond well, so I'll be stupid and take your words literally to throw some sort of wrongness into your statement.
You hurt my head sir.
VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yipeeeee!!!
Wait for the Muslims to want THEIR book read in school. Or the Mormons or the Scientologists. Better get ready for the mandatory Mormon sacred underwear as their are a few Mormon Republicans coming our way.
If you put the Bible back in to class we will have less crime and more lovely kids
And less educated students due to time lost in math and science.
If that is so how come secular countries are more peaceful than religious ones?
Schools went to hell when they stopped praying!! Most of you on the post need to pray. Seperate Church& Religion is like separating your brain from your body. Which from some of these posts I've read as already happened!!!
Also, we could throw in patience (being a virtue of His), humble (to learn the Best that He wants all of us to be), wise (because we learn and comprehend His truth, then applied it to our lives), thoughtful, compassionate, loving, kind, tolerant, responsible (for thoughts, beliefs, actions), complete, secure to mention just a few more of His truth.
Amen.
If they do that, I'd demand that they also teach the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
By your writing, you must have majored in that.
The article reads that this would be an elective course, doesn't that mean that students choose to take the course. It isn't a required course. For those that say that there is no God, then what do you fear from students taking a course (of their own choosing) to study the Bible in literary setting? This country was founded on principles in the Bible.
I like the comment from rajesh, He or she is from a country where Christianity is the minority and Muslim is the majority, and yet they study it. What are so many Americans afraid of?
If they taught RELIGION, I'd agree with you. But they're teaching the Bible, which implied to a majority of the readers that this was a Christian studies class.
The country was not founded on Judeo-Christian values. Most of the Founding Fathers very openly stated that they thought religion was nonsense.
Then George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Rush, Charles Carrol, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry and others who all stated that the pillars of government are religion, morality and most indicated Christianity. Where do you think they got their values? Hinduism, Muslim and other religions weren't prevalent in the colonial days.
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson rewrote the New Testament to take out all references of Jesus as the Messiah? Not very Christian of him, hey?
@GoodNews, did we read the same extremely short article? Or did you read something more extensive that what cnn.com has posted here? I saw nothing stating that Bible class would be an elective. Senator Bowen "wants Kentucky public school students to have an opportunity to take classes about the Bible" but said nothing about such classes not being mandatory.
Could it be not willing to give up sinful ways that became a reality. Learning His truth on ethics, morals, love, compassion, justice, fairness, wisdom, patience, being humble instead of allowing their egos to roar full speed ahead without accepting responsibility for their thoughts, beliefs, actions in life, trust and honesty in friendships/relationships, family, co-workers, employers etc. Just to mention a few.
Just a thought.
I love all the Bible haters, you can teach courses on Islam to counter 9-11 stereotypes, you can teach Judaism for holocaust references, and you can teach Hindi for it's monotheistic teachings, but the moment someone mentions the Bible and the state is "dragging its knuckles." It may be too early for you California posters, but I would suggest you mind your own 24 billion dollar shortfalls before criticizing our menial gestures.
Monotheistic refers to a religion with one deity. The Hindu religion is widely considered to be polytheistic.
good catch, sorry i am at work and not paying attention.
California or not, people who "think", get real "jobs", real "education" pay you your unemployment insurance.
We don't pay it for you to learn, teach, profess a fairy tale.
This is totally not true. The people would not accept any other holy book being put into "schools". Why should we teach something that never happened? Its like have a course over "The Iliad"....
if it were any other book of religion, it wouldn't be in the news. It's only when it's related to Christianity, that it strikes fear. What other name in history causes fear for over 2000 years?
What are you even talking about?
To teach Judaism, one must also use the Bible, just not the Christian version of it, which includes the stories of Jesus.
John, try and find out how these non-believers apply breaks to life. That's my major question and I can't get any of them to focus on this concept. If they know how to apply breaks in life, where do they think they learned that?
Amen.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Teach Islam. Teach Judaism! Teach Hinduism. But.... only the majority rules. It's BS! SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE! You wanna teach the bible, go to sunday school. Keep out of education!
Shawn, wow, you're thrilled with what you've learned and now the learning is over?
You get a dinosaur ride with every bible purchase.
Thumbs up!!!!!
There may be bits of wisdom in the Buy Bull, but it's mostly a fraud. Our country is on the fast track to becoming a laughingstock.
Why is the bible a "fraud" in your opinion? Can you prove that?
@stevie68a: we're already a laughingstock.
@Brad: try googling "Council of Nicea." I recommend reading wikipedia's write-up, and following the links to learn more about how the Christian canon was developed.
Brad
"Why is the bible a "fraud" in your opinion? Can you prove that?"
Presenting myths, legends, superst!tions and fantasies of the supernatural as fact when there is no proof is not honest.
Magic
Presenting myths, legends, superst!tions and fantasies of the supernatural as fact when there is no proof is not honest.
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Thank you for proving you know absolutely nothing about the Bible!
> Thank you for proving you know absolutely nothing about the Bible!
Clearly if you don't think there is superst-tion in the bible, you haven't read your bible. Burnt offerings to cure diseased for $200 Alex.
Bob.
> Thank you for proving you know absolutely nothing about the Bible!
Clearly if you don't think there is superst-tion in the bible, you haven't read your bible. Burnt offerings to cure diseased for $200 Alex.
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It is one thing to say there is superst-ition in the Bible (which by the was condemned by God. You know the Thou shall have no other gods before me thing?) and a whole different thing to imply the Bible IS supersti-tion! Two totally different animals Bob! Double Jeopardy for $2000 AND the win, Alex!
"Brad
Why is the bible a "fraud" in your opinion? Can you prove that?"
Can you prove it's not a fraud?
Queue the banjo music. You guys are gonna git some bible lernin!
Yeehawwww!!
I'll never move to Kentucky.
Lacey, I doubt you'd make enough money to buy a farm there. That's not including if your folks give you that money.
It totally boggles my mind how this generation is so closed minded to learning, comprehending and then applying Jesus' wisdom to your lives. You know nothing about His truth except for the basics society has shown you (love, kindness, compassion, tolerance, mercy, etc). His teachings are complete, yet you folks think it cool to stay 1/2 of what you could be. Maybe, ignorance is bliss. But to Christians, it sadden's our hearts that you care less to add His wisdom as another tool to your tool belt of life. If it's science that you look up too. Christians know that Jesus' truth and pure science go hand in hand and Jesus wrote about this 1000s of years ago. What we find horrifying is how young folks jump on scientific theories without them ever becoming facts ... and run with this half baked knowledge to dis Jesus' teachings even more. My concern is if you don't know His truth, how to you have breaks in life not to trample on and over others?
Of course if there were publicly funded Christian schools like there are in Ontario, this wouldn't be an issue. We have public schools and public Catholic schools paid for by tax payers and we all get along just fine. Our Catholis schools have religion class as well as regular masses during the day at appropriate Christian holidays. Oops, we also teach evolution and the Bible in our schools at the same time, and no one complains. Horrors!
In the U.S. we don't like to fund anything
If you teach evolution and bible in the same school! Isn't that complete hypocrisy and st_upidity?
Most Amercians don't have that much sense. They don't even want equal Healthcare for everyone. So you know that don't care much about the Bible just look at some of the Posts.
But then the Baptists, Methodists an Episcopalians would be angry that they didn't have their own schools too.
But the state cannot fund a religious school, see the const-tution's seperation of church and state.
I actually went to a roman catholic school. We were not taught any science to speak of and when I hit highschool I was behind the curve in a big way.
It's only then that I discovered my love for science, biology specifically and went on to study it in university.
DenverGrl
But then the Baptists, Methodists an Episcopalians would be angry that they didn't have their own schools too
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You mean like Southern Medodist University (SMU) or Baylor (Baptist)? There many more out there! Sorry can think of an episocpalian school
It would be fine to have a religious studies class where students critically discuss several faiths but this seems a bit much.
Will Sunday Schools be required to teach Algebra?
about time they added christian mythology to the curriculum.
Because it's easier to read one book than a bunch of hard ones. Geez.
Guess it won't be long before the Qu'ran and the Bhagavad-Gita aand other religion's sacred texts are given equal time in public schools. Right? Well, I would hope so. *Makes popcorn* Let the games begin!
Such fools there are in this country.
I'm totally with you. These archaic religions should be done away with.
Its sad they don't see the parables to theocracy's around the world.
Good thing you doing there but I doubt that anyone might get it truly without the illumination of the Holy Spirit / sincere thirst for God/ sincere repentence.
It's only against the first amendment, but who cares anymore right?
I completely understand why your religious.
I had to stop 2-3 times at the beginning to figure out what you were attempting to say.
There have been study's done on this. They prove every time that the more religious you are...the lower your IQ
Who determines "sincere", you?
So does this mean that Qur'an and other holy books can be taught as well. So long as equal treatment is given to all other holy books? Wait. What about the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Marty...people that think like you are a dieing breed. Your way of thinking has only prevented us from moving forward. Science has done more to help the people then your fake belief system ever will.
stayoutofschools
It's only against the first amendment, but who cares anymore right?
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Wrong! However, the attempts to prohibit the free exercise of religion is against the 1st Amendment!
> Wrong! However, the attempts to prohibit the free exercise of religion is against the 1st Amendment!
Name a single infraction against an individual's right to religion (specifically Christianity) that occured in the past 30 years.
Go ahead. I'm waiting.
Bob.
> Wrong! However, the attempts to prohibit the free exercise of religion is against the 1st Amendment!
Name a single infraction against an individual's right to religion (specifically Christianity) that occured in the past 30 years.
Go ahead. I'm waiting.
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1. When did I say that ever happened?
2. The person I responded to failed to mention the second part! Why woud he only mention the 1st part? Maybe that only fits his argument! Wouldn't you say?
Marty,
Not sure if you are addresing me or not but you are correct. It does take the Holy Spirit to illuminate a heart! We just don't know who will respond or at least who will start thinking about the condition of their souls!