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Today on fox there was a story about a teacher that was suspended for quoting a bible verse and passing out religious tracts against school policy of separation of church and state and the need to take neutral views on religion. No one can ever be neutral on religion and everyone must take some view. Today in schools the push for neutrality results in suppression of religion. And that is the way these things are going. In case anyone cares the school teacher merely said as the kids were lined up to come in: "The first shall be last and the last shall be first" the kid asked where the quote came from several times over the course of a few days and the teacher said "the bible". The student later approached the teacher and asked again where the verse came from and since the teacher who was on a break was reading his personal bible at the time had it with him he pointed out where it was and gave the kid his own bible. It does not appear that the teacher did anything other than be who he genuinely was and was not proselytizing. I think the teacher may have even crossed a line but not to the extent that he is accused. Surely teachers should be able to quote from a variety of sources in teaching. Interestingly, I have a book called "cultural literacy" which contains a great deal of stuffs about the American culture that if one does not know would make one culturally illiterate. Probably half of the quotations in the book are directly or indirectly from the bible.
Today on fox there was a story about a teacher that was suspended for quoting a bible verse and passing out religious tracts against school policy of separation of church and state and the need to take neutral views on religion.
No one can ever be neutral on religion and everyone must take some view. Today in schools the push for neutrality results in suppression of religion. And that is the way these things are going.
In case anyone cares the school teacher merely said as the kids were lined up to come in: "The first shall be last and the last shall be first" the kid asked where the quote came from several times over the course of a few days and the teacher said "the bible". The student later approached the teacher and asked again where the verse came from and since the teacher who was on a break was reading his personal bible at the time had it with him he pointed out where it was and gave the kid his own bible. It does not appear that the teacher did anything other than be who he genuinely was and was not proselytizing. I think the teacher may have even crossed a line but not to the extent that he is accused. Surely teachers should be able to quote from a variety of sources in teaching. Interestingly, I have a book called "cultural literacy" which contains a great deal of stuffs about the American culture that if one does not know would make one culturally illiterate. Probably half of the quotations in the book are directly or indirectly from the bible.
