What's disappointing about this story is how many students and adults side with the teacher in using class time to advance his religion. Christianity is not being persecuted in this country.
Yet for every instance of prostelytizing I can show you one of suppression of free speech by authorities.
It goes both ways, npc...kind of like that first amendment...
Most "persecution" I see of Christianity is overreaction by Christians upset that they're getting equal treatment. On the other hand, there's a lot of Christianity embedded in US laws that people tend not to even think about (Blue laws, for example).
As I already said, though, what disturbs me about this is the amount of complacency and siding with the teacher, who is obviously wrong.
Very odd logic indeed.
There was a time when Biblical ideals were taught in the public schools, (as they are funded by taxpayers who were at the time a majority Christian).
Now, obviously different today, with the seperation of church and state, but your logic about complacency is backwards.
Complacency is not in the fact of supporting the teacher, complacency is in the fact that Christians let the schools get the way they are today over the past several decades.
FYI, I don't agree with the teacher.
He has no business telling anyone they are going to hell, nor telling kids that dinosaurs were on the ark.
Frankly, it sounds like the guy does not even have his theology straight.
Even if I didn't mind him teaching about the bible in school, I would not like the unfounded, incorrect things he is teaching them about the bible.
The man was hired to teach history, so teach history.
If he wants to make biblical history a part of the lesson, I don't have a big beef with that, but he has taken the lesson way past pure history.
btw, being the good boy that I am, I probably would have had to challenge Mr. Re-writer of Biblical Theology to an open debate.
I wonder if he would have accepted, or just failed me?
I did tell my Christianity professor in college that he was wrong about Christ being capable of sin.
He didn't want me to speak, so I walked and didn't go back.
Thankfully, he gave me an Incomplete, rather than an F.
If I had children in his class, I would not want them having to sit through the junk he is feeding his class.
Look at all the tolerance here for a dissenting opinion. The teacher was supposed to teach history, just history, but he had to go and use his classroom to preach his beliefs.
It's usually some lefty doing this, why public schools don't teach subjects like history much anymore.
Jesus said to him, I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 14:6.
Muslims don't believe that passage.
They believe Jesus (called Isa) was a prophet but not the Son of God.
The Koran says that God does not have a son and that Jesus was not crucified.
There is no doctrine in the Bible about "invincible ignorance." :confused: