A neat idea,

The Mustang, Okla., school board voted Monday (April 14) to adopt a Bible course developed by Steve Green, clearing the way for the Hobby Lobby president, whose suit against the Affordable Care Act is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court, to enter another charged arena at the borderline of church and state.

The board, whose district is practically in Hobby Lobby’s Oklahoma City backyard, agreed to beta-test the first year of the Museum of the Bible Curriculum, an ambitious four-year public school elective on the narrative, history and impact of the Good Book.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/r...story.html

I understand this will be a prerequisite for a new science class, "How God uses hurricanes and tornadoes to punish liberals".

(04-24-2014 08:26 AM)ken d Wrote:  I understand this will be a prerequisite for a new science class, "How God uses hurricanes and tornadoes to punish liberals".

Just the crazy ones.

The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles? If they were smart, they'd build it vertically instead of horizontally. That way, they wouldn't have to wait to die to get to heaven.

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles?

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles? If they were smart, they'd build it vertically instead of horizontally. That way, they wouldn't have to wait to die to get to heaven.

It's been tried..

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles?

Roughly, when you include all the offices and warehouses and loading docks. That is where Mardels, and Greco house their headquarters as well. It's huge.

I think history classes on both the old and new testament are good ideas because of their historic nature.

I think the elective study of any and all religions in public schools is perfectly appropriate. However I am not so down on a curriculum via this Green Scholars Initiative that seems to only support a biased review of the Bible. I can't imagine it remotely encourages critical thinking based on the description in the article so personally this type of preaching might be better left to Sundays at the local Church.

But, I prefer local control of local governments so have at it. It will be interesting to watch because the "Yatheist" are going to challenge this at every opportunity.

(04-24-2014 09:03 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles?

Roughly, when you include all the offices and warehouses and loading docks. That is where Mardels, and Greco house their headquarters as well. It's huge.

That makes it 7 miles long and 150 feet wide. That's not as much a building as it is a wind tunnel.

I don't really care that they're doing this. As long as religious classes aren't required and aren't a part of science classes, then I'm fine with it. My school taught Greek Mythology, and I don't really view the bible any differently than I view that.

(04-24-2014 10:03 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 09:03 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles?

Roughly, when you include all the offices and warehouses and loading docks. That is where Mardels, and Greco house their headquarters as well. It's huge.

That makes it 7 miles long and 150 feet wide. That's not as much a building as it is a wind tunnel.

It's the liberal nemesis Ken. The compound of evil conservatism forcing religion on the world.

I have no problem with it. It is an elective. I took a bible study class while at the University of Cincinnati as an elective that I enjoyed.

(04-24-2014 09:33 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  I think history classes on both the old and new testament are good ideas because of their historic nature.

If you were to teach how the bible has impacted western civilization in an unbiased way, that would probably be an interesting college course. If you were to teach the bible as if it were history, or even an attempt to portray history, that would be akin to teaching Shakespeare's plays as if they were history as well. As history, the bible has no value. As literature, or as anthropology, it has great value to students mature enough to examine it critically. That excludes high school students.

I can't imagine this course, in this place, being anything more than an attempt to promote the views of one subset of Christian believers over those of other Christians and non-Christians. But it's Oklahoma. What would you expect?

(04-24-2014 10:18 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 09:33 AM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  I think history classes on both the old and new testament are good ideas because of their historic nature.

If you were to teach how the bible has impacted western civilization in an unbiased way, that would probably be an interesting college course. If you were to teach the bible as if it were history, or even an attempt to portray history, that would be akin to teaching Shakespeare's plays as if they were history as well. As history, the bible has no value. As literature, or as anthropology, it has great value to students mature enough to examine it critically. That excludes high school students.

I can't imagine this course, in this place, being anything more than an attempt to promote the views of one subset of Christian believers over those of other Christians and non-Christians. But it's Oklahoma. What would you expect?

Ken, I'm afraid this is only go to spread to other parts of the country. The Christian agenda is taking ahold.

(04-24-2014 10:15 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 10:03 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 09:03 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:52 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  The Hobby Lobby headquarters is a massive 7 mile long building. They are building a Bible museum on 7k acre plot across the street. This will be the new nemesis for liberals.


Liberals will grow increasingly scared of this company and build it up to an evil fortress of Koch brother style conservatism.

7 miles?

Roughly, when you include all the offices and warehouses and loading docks. That is where Mardels, and Greco house their headquarters as well. It's huge.

That makes it 7 miles long and 150 feet wide. That's not as much a building as it is a wind tunnel.

It's the liberal nemesis Ken. The compound of evil conservatism forcing religion on the world.

It's a warehouse. That's not very scary.

(04-24-2014 10:21 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 10:15 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 10:03 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 09:03 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(04-24-2014 08:59 AM)VA49er Wrote:  7 miles?

Roughly, when you include all the offices and warehouses and loading docks. That is where Mardels, and Greco house their headquarters as well. It's huge.

That makes it 7 miles long and 150 feet wide. That's not as much a building as it is a wind tunnel.

It's the liberal nemesis Ken. The compound of evil conservatism forcing religion on the world.

It's a warehouse. That's not very scary.

It's about ten whorehouses and a huge corporate office. It's a Christian compound Ken. The halls are lined with crosses and chapels.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11714...us-project

As an elective the real question is why not?

(04-24-2014 10:28 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  As an elective the real question is why not?

If it is taxpayer funded (I haven't read the article so I don't know if the classes will be funded with tax dollars), students should have the option of studying other religions as well.

Cabarrus county high schools in NC have bible classes but that doesn't bother me as much because the funds for supplies and teacher salary are all privately donated.