Alabama First State to Adopt Bible Textbook for High Schools

gabrielellisvaughn »

Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:40 am Agree: 4   Disagree: 12

I think that this is a mistake by Alabama. I'm not a Christian, neither is my wife, and my son probably won't be (its his decision in the end)-I live 2 miles from the border of Alabama-and I don't know if I'd allow my son to go to a school that ONLY gave a history lesson by using the 'Bible'. I think that there are important facts in it, but there are in the Quran and even in the Apocrypha. It seems to be a push for Christianity in the schools to me, and that REALLY scares me, because not everyone in the nation is, and it wasn't made to be a Christian nation. The original settlers of this country came to escape forced religion and religious persecution. John Adams wasn't a Christian...and even Thomas Jefferson was scared by it in the country. I have emailed the ACLU with my concerns on it. And I hope that they watch it closely. I would not want my son to go to a Christian 'Sunday School' Monday through Friday in our public school system.

And I am happy to see DannyPoo's comments above, especially being a conservative Christian.

Just another bit of info: I had a 'Bible' class in high school when I went to Niceville High School in Florida back around 1994. It WAS taught as history, but the great part about the class, is that it was taught by an atheist teacher. And it was very informative, but at the time, I was wondering why other religious books weren't being taught in the class as history.