Be interesting to see how this comes out – from OneNewsNow:
A California school district has decided in a 5-0 vote to adopt a Bible course that will be available to students in the upcoming school year.
Beginning this fall, high school seniors of the Chino Valley School District will have the chance to enroll in a new course called “Bible as/in Literature and History.”
Envisioned by the board’s Vice President James Na, the class will focus on giving students an understanding of the Bible’s influence in history, literature, religion and politics. It will offer a survey of the Bible, beginning with the historical context of the Old Testament, and then will focus on the New Testament later in the semester. It will also provide students with a historical knowledge of the Middle East…
Given that it is impossible to understand our civilization and our nation without an understanding of the Bible, this tends towards being a good thing – provided the material is dealt with properly. Things like this, when handed over to a public school, do run the risk of coming out badly. But, an honest attempt to instruct the kids on the facts of the Bible is a good thing – and that, in and of itself, will cause fits on the left.
The thing is, most of what the left teaches about what is in the Bible is outright falsehood or, at best, half truth. Actually instructing from it, as a text and even without getting in to the theology of it, “risks” (as it were) the kids getting exposed to Truth – and that is something the left is very intolerant of. They much prefer that the kiddies just get their nonsense about the Bible without ever checking it themselves to see what is what.
We’ll have to see if this (a) really goes forward and (b) if some group like the ACLU files a lawsuit. The times are really changing, however, and this might be a signal for all sorts of good things to come – maybe the kids will even learn American history.
Stranger things have happened.
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