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Author Topic:   Should Sacred Studies be part of a general public school curricula
Coragyps
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Message 17 of 161 (203850)
04-29-2005 10:44 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by Minnemooseus
04-29-2005 9:06 PM


Yeah, Odessa's 110 miles from here. An article from the local newspaper:
Page not found - Odessa American
and one from when it started up:
Page not found - Odessa American
I don't know Superintendant Sollis personally, though he lived here in Snyder until a couple of years ago and plays banjo very, very well. He seems fairly fair-minded on the issue. I haven't yet Googled up the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools to see just how "unbiased" and non-preachy their curriculum is. But I can guess how the course will actually go down....

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Coragyps
Member (Idle past 756 days)
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From: Snyder, Texas, USA
Joined: 11-12-2002


Message 156 of 161 (579699)
09-05-2010 5:55 PM
Reply to: Message 154 by Minnemooseus
09-05-2010 5:25 PM


Re: Where is the constitutional/not constitutional line?
All it takes is one of those glitches, you got a lawsuit from either the pro or anti-religion side, and the whole thing comes crashing down.
As soon as you even mentioned any of the beliefs of, say, Islam or Shintoism in any but a condemnatory way, the good bibliatrous parents of Texas would throw wall-eyed fits. "Comparative religion" here in Snyder implies comparing Free-will and Southern Baptists.
I'd love to see a real comparative relgions course in our high schools The chances of finding teachers that would 1) teach it in an unbiased way and 2) avoid having their houses firebombed would be exceedingly slim, though.
Jar, do I remember correctly that you went to an Episcopal school?

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