Why Public Schools Should Teach the Bible

A Bible class at Woodland High School in Cartersville, Ga.

Can you imagine students not reading the Constitution in a U.S. government class? School administrators not sharing the periodic table of the elements with their science classes? A driver?s ed course that expected young men and women to pass written and road tests without having access to a booklet enumerating the rules of the road?

It would be the same thing, we believe, to deny America?s sons and daughters the benefits of an education that includes a study of the Bible. Although we are both Christians, the list is long of ardent atheists who appreciate the Bible?s educational heft while rejecting its spiritual claims. It is possible to have education without indoctrination. On this point, believers and nonbelievers should be able to ?see eye to eye.? (More Bible goodness.)

Interestingly enough, the common desktop reference guide ?The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy? best sums up the Bible?s value as a tool of cultural literacy. Its first page declares: ?No one in the English speaking world can be considered literate without a basic knowledge of the Bible.?

Can we hear an amen?

Source: http://www.dayofrepentance.org/2013/03/why-public-schools-should-teach-the-bible/

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