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Yesterday, my local NBC affiliate ran a quick news story<\/a> about the proposed Bible curriculum which is still being mulled over by Mustang Public Schools. You can find background here<\/a> and here<\/a>, but the basic story is that they are still thinking about bringing an elective Bible course to the public schools.<\/p>\n

Here is why this is a bad idea, regardless of how well the curriculum is implemented.<\/p>\n

Scenario #1 \u2013 Constitutional Bible Classes
\n<\/strong>In this scenario, the Bible is taught as just another holy book among many, containing some history, plenty of mythology, and an active academic debate about the extent to which particular stories fit into one category or the other. Schoolchildren will be taught that it is okay to question on Monday morning what they were taught to take on faith in Sunday School the previous day. Here is a representative sample of what those sorts of lectures look like:<\/p>\n