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Constitutional debate continues over whether public schools should include biblical Armageddon alongside global warming in end-of-world curriculum. (The Onion News)
IMO the Christians are right, have Ancient History classes include Revelation and the End Times. But we might tell Christians that "equal time" for both humanists and Biblicists in the classroom cuts both ways. For instance though abstinence ought to be in the elementary school curricula, so should sex ed be taught.
Yes I agree with Postfuturist, That Ancient History should teach future events......and I propose Postfuturist should change his name to PastFuturist. I also propose that Old Testament Law should be taught in Chemistry class, and that Creationism be taught in Auto mechanics classes.
The first comment to this video, MrWhatever, was not to urge theology be taught in schools, but merely that Revelation be taught in history classes-- and nowhere else. The Bible is a part of history which cannot be ignored, though we would almost certainly (IMO naturally) be better off without the Bible. But such is tantamount to saying "I wish my ancestors had been different". The Bible is lodged into both our individual and our collective subconscious, and until we can erase the historical programming of our subconscious, we are stuck with it. Rather than reject the Bible altogether-- much though it would be a relief to do so-- better to choose a segment of the Bible such as Revelation, pick out its flaws in class, and supply students with an counterpoint to discuss. The most obvious example of a bifurcated-but-edifying class curricula would (again) be to teach both abstinence AND sex ed in schools; the teachers would warn the students: "you play around too much, you contract STDs". Similarly, in class a bifurcated discussion concerning religion would include religious studies (no theology allowed) and also a discussion of both atheism & agnosticism.
PS, Revelation would be the ideal book to discuss as an Elementary religious studies-- Revelation combines history, eschatology, and a broad religious studies. The solution to church-state dilemma would be to only allow atheists & agnostics to teach religious studies in classrooms; a secular teacher can say "class, I don't believe in this, but it can't be erased from our minds just like that. if only there WERE an erase button."
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