Bible Being Taught In Schools

REPOSTED

Today during my lunch I was channel surfing and I saw on Fox News had a headline asking if Americans knew enough about the Bible. The spark notes of the conversation they were having was that America was going downhill because our parents and grandparents didn't teach us enough about the Bible. There was no argument from anyone on the show about this fact. They were also saying that a class about the Bible should be REQUIRED in schools. They say that Generation Y mostly views Jesus as a good teacher, and not the actual son of God. They said many people don't believe in most of the supernatural. "We must teach the young generation that these supernatural events really did happen."

Most of the people reading this already know that I'm not a big fan of religion. I think even most religious people of Generation Y would agree with me that Fox News has maybe come up with the worst idea ever. There is definitely more important things to worry about in education.

I was under the impression that if parents wanted there kids to learn about the Bible they could already go somewhere. Maybe a church, Sunday school, or Bible study. I spent a lot of time in the church before college, and there is always someone to tell you about the Bible. Kids already hate Sunday School, don't make it everyday.

The worst part of this idea is only showing kids one religion. If you are going to be religious you should at least be able to choose which group you are going to follow. Let schools lay out all the options.

Christianity:
Just convince yourself that you aren't accountable for your actions, Jesus already took care of those for you. Do this and go to heaven (no perks in heaven), fail and go to hell.

Islam:
Convince yourself Muhammad actually talked to God. Just kill yourself and as many infidels as you can and go to heaven (with 72 virgins).

Judaism:
Just behave yourself with no worries of a heaven our hell. Only 300 or so rules to remember. No ham. Cut off foreskin.

Agnostic:
American schools won't allow this, choose a side.

I think if we did this, most guys would choose Islam, come on 72 virgins, how do I sign up. Pretty sure most girls would choose.. I don't know what girls think. But the number of Christians would drop greatly.

Think what would happen if no parents or anyone told their children about religion, do you think the children would just know because God is with them already, no. They would grow up with morals, they wouldn't all be savages, murderers, or rapists. I would imagine the rate would be about the same. The idea of this makes me think of a person in prison with his cross tattoo, and necklace.

Anyway, I know it was only Fox News and they are basically idiots about everything, but I wanted to know what the people that responded to my last note thought about it. I realize I got a bit off topic, and this is horribly written, but I wanted to write something about it before I forgot.

We already do enough to confuse kids with the complete contradiction of scientific fact and religion. Whether it be evolution vs. creationism, the age of the Earth whatever. When you have kids, make sure you tell them logic science as much as faith religion, give them all the facts, and let them choose for themselves. Don't pressure them. A human mind has too much potential that is held back because of the confusion. It reminds me of a story about a graduate student from Harvard. Brilliant. But very religious and thought he had to choose between faith or science. Chose religion and said everything that logically made sense to him was wrong, only because the bible said so.

If the Bible can confuse Harvard doctors, it will confuse school children.