American Kentucky Education Committee turn Evangelical- Students to be given Bible Teaching. Archaeological Nonsense.

Here’s The State That Just Passed A Bill To Allow The Teaching Of The Bible In Public Schools…

(Bible was banned for Obscenity in 20th Century American courts more than 100 times)

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Last Thursday, March 10, the Kentucky Education Committee unanimously agreed that educators should be allowed to teach Bible literacy classes in the state’s public schools. This forces the state’s Board of Education to draft curriculum for an elective social studies course on the Bible.

According to Senate Bill 278, the elective course would help students understand biblical content, characters, poetry, and elements of narrative. The class will focus on teaching students the analytic skills needed to determine the efficacy of the Bible and if it’s teachings pertain to contemporary society and culture.

The liberal state legislators. who pushed for the bill, emphasize that the class will be educational and objective -not religious.

“Senate Bill 278 would not teach the Bible — it would teach about the Bible,” said Democratic State Sen. Gerald A. Neal. Thus giving students an opportunity to choose for themselves. “The Bible isn’t something we should run away from or to.”

The Democratic State senator Robin L. Webb, who introduced the bill on March 3, said the class would be different from other literature classes.

“I remember what it looked like when I had it as literature and it was just like the dissection and discussion of any other book,” Webb said. “I’m optimistic, cautiously optimistic like I am with any bill here.”

“This bill would not have a religious connotation as much as a historical connotation,” she said.

But objectors, including the bipartisan ACLU of Kentucky, say Bible lessons probably won’t be taught without bias.

“Because although there certainly are acceptable ways to teach about the Bible to public school students — such as teaching comparative religion classes or about the Bible’s relationship to literature, art or music — the fact remains that it is difficult, in practice, to do so in a constitutionally permissible manner,” said William E. Sharp, the legal director for the ACLU of Kentucky. “Moreover, the ACLU of Kentucky maintains that parents and religious leaders, not government employees, should teach religious beliefs to children.”

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would strictly follow the teachings of the New, he would be insane. -- Robert G. Ingersoll 

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel." -- Age of Reason (18th century), by Thomas Paine

 Nobody holds in greater contempt than I the writers, publishers, or dealers in obscene literature. One of my objections to the Bible is that it contains hundreds of grossly obscene passages not fit to be read by any decent man; thousands of passages, in my judgment, calculated to corrupt the minds of youth. I hope the time will come when the good sense of the American people will demand a bible with all obscene passages left out. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, in a letter to a friend