Myth and superstition is so much more important than truth and knowledge.“We put the Bible back in our history standards," Walters said ...
Unfortunately, I suspect that's the exact opposite of what Walter's intended with that comment.
He can go by tGod.
Well if that’s the case, they also need to integrate the Book of Mormon into their American history lessons.“We put the Bible back in our history standards," Walters said ...
What insight into either anthropology or history does it give? It's a collection of myths and exaggerations that have almost no substantiating evidence. There's no evidence supporting a captivity in Egypt or an Exodus or a covenant concerning a Promised Land. There's no evidence of Moses , we know the Creation story is bunkum and that the whole Christian story was corrupted by Paul and coopted by white people. And, fwiw, if the stories in the Gospels are to be believed ( a dubious idea at best) while Jesus might have attested to the validity of the OT, no one of any comparable standing has or can attest to the validity of either the NT or of the process by which it was compiled.
Don't really want to get into a deep discussion of this but, like most ancient texts, the Bible tells us a great deal about the people who were responsible for creating it and their attempts to understand the world around them. Those questions are pretty much at the core of historical anthropology. Legitimate anthropologists and historians know not to read the Bible (or any other ancient texts) as literal historical accounts, and even the elements that do give us some insight into history (such as the Babylonian conquest of the Levant, which indisputably did happen) must be read through the lens of what the writers were trying to achieve. But it seems to me to be a pretty extreme view to say that ancient texts should not inform our civic and democratic education just because they're not historically reliable. They tell us a lot about the history of humankind, and that's important for us to understand.
You and I probably end up at the same conclusion...that the Bible has little to no place in primary or secondary public education...but we take different routes. I disagree that there is not significant importance to be found in the Bible, but I also believe that of other religious texts such as the Qur'an. I think this is true because so much of civilization as we know it today has been shaped by these books in one way or another. However, I think that a reasonable discussion of these topics with comparisons and discourse is not possible in any elementary/primary settings and exceptionally unlikely in most secondary/high school settings. Therefore, I think such topics should be left to higher education at least for now. Honestly, too many people would be too dug in to having the texts taught as dogma rather than as historical documents for me to believe they have a place in public education right now.
If they nominate him it will not be because he deserves it, it will be in the same transactional light as Paramount caving to the trump extortion to save their merger.
Maybe we should discuss the problems created by how these shaped civilization?
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