Religions > Atheism > Well-received textbook on Bible skirts church/state issues
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Well-received textbook on Bible skirts church/state issues |
http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=211639&c=107
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Well-received textbook on Bible skirts church/state issues
The Associated Press
11/12/05
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Think it's impossible to create a textbook about the Bible for public high
schools that's acceptable to varied faiths and legal in the eyes of
church-state separationists?
That's the goal of the Bible Literacy Project of Fairfax, Va. And judging
from initial reactions, it succeeded handsomely with its new "The Bible and
Its Influence," just issued for use in the 2006-2007 school year.
Bible Literacy's strategy is to respect all religions and shun divisive
controversies about biblical interpretation, merely reporting these when
they're relevant.
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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