New Public School Bible Textbook?

A reader writes:

Jimmy –

I know you get quite a bit of e-mail during the day but I found this article & thought you’d find it interesting.  It’s about a new book called  "The Bible and Its Influence" that’s intended to teach how literature, society, politics, etc, have been influenced by the Bible & it’s meant to be used in public schools.  I found it a very interesting piece.

So did I.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

2 thoughts on “New Public School Bible Textbook?”

  1. I wonder where they say the Bible came from. I noticed no comments from the “source” of the Bible.
    It’s news like this that reminds me why we just started homeschooling.

  2. I actually attended a Bible Literature class in my public high-school. There was a huge brouhaha about the class being formed. The teacher was very careful about not taking theological positions, which was absolutely impossible. My biggest complaint was that it was treated as an “easy” English elective.
    Which reminds me…
    One of the essay questions was who was directly responsible for the fall of man: Eve, God, or Satan. I based my response on Paul’s commentary on Eve’s ignorance to show that only Adam was ultimately responsible (Satan bore some culpability but in the end he was only directly responsible for his fall). There was a large portion of the class that argued for Eve. I was shocked at first. But then I put the pieces together and noted that since feminism doesn’t generally accept a familial hierarchy that the class had to adopt a PC position that blamed Eve despite Paul’s direct testimony to the contrary. Is this becoming a more dominant view?

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