http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/12/23/arkansas-legislature-wants-academic-study-of-the-bible-in-public-schools/
The Arkansas state legislature is currently working on a bill that would allow academic study of the Bible in public schools. School districts throughout the state would create their own curriculum for such a course and they would be held to the same standards as all other courses.
These classes would also be electives; they would not be required curriculum. There are many people who believe that such a class is a good idea, provided that it’s in a non-religious format; a study of the history of the books of the Bible and correlating those to events discussed in other historical texts, perhaps studying different translations and discussing those differences, and other avenues of study that don’t include preaching.
key words Bible, faith one written by man as their interpretation of God's intent which has been reinterpreted umteen times each religion adds or omits to suit its members all in the name of "this is what God meant".
the other is subject to each in their own way, obligation religious or otherwise is only as far as you feel it. academia needs to stop smelling themselves and realize they are only making assumptions because somebody allowed them to be "qualified" to tell us what, when, where and who about God. that same Bible references God only speaking to a couple of people so how is there now miraculously so many worthy of that audience especially when what follows are generally lies and bigotry?
