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Politics and Society
Do Oklahoma Schools Teach Both the Bible and Reality?
There are serious public policy implications of dismissing science, history, reason, etc…
Oklahoma recently announced that it will mandate teaching the Bible in public schools. It even went so far as to promise that it would fire teachers who refused to teach the Bible in schools.In related news, which shows that this issue is not limited to Oklahoma, the Louisiana governor mandated that the Ten Commandments be displayed in classrooms. His with this action is to get the Supreme Court to overturn its previous rulings banning prayer and religious teaching in public schools.There are plenty of problems with this.For one thing, the rationale, as explained by Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Education, doesn’t make sense. I can’t parse his explanation, I’ve tried. But, here’s a to him trying, if you’d like to give it a shot.I’ll touch briefly upon generally understood issues with teaching the Bible in schools before digging into what’s missing from the discourse.
Known issues
One major problem is discrimination. Historically, when the Bible is taught in…
