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Should public schools offer courses in the Bible?

What is the Bible and which version will be taught? The Bible is a religious book with included chapters that are said to be the actual words of God. Many denominations use variations of the Bible, so again, which version do you want taught in a public school? I guess I would have to assume the big debate is over having the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, taught since we know that the Jewish faith was in practice way before the term Christianity was even spoken of, and we know that Jesus Christ himself was Jewish even at the time of his death. But, I know that is the very heart of this debate, it is about force feeding one and only religion to the innocent minds of youth, and that one and only religion is Christianity. This is why public schools should not offer courses in Bible.

Teaching a course in the Christian Bible is bias. If you are a proper Christian, your children are already getting daily doses of Bible study within your home, and they probably get an extra dose of Bible teaching at their respective Sunday Schools. That is your parental choice and no one is preventing you from practicing your faith. But I must ask, why the need for public schools to teach more Christian Bible courses? Are you as Christian parents failing to teach your children the Bible? Have you become to lazy in your efforts to teach your children your chosen faith that you now want the public schools to do your job? Or is it that you are so intolerant of other faiths that you think creating a Christian Bible course in the public schools will cause more division, intolerance, and maybe fearfully indoctrinate a few new recruits?

The only way a course in the Bible would be feasibly and responsibly taught in a public school setting would be to make it an elective class in high school. The class would not just teach the literary works found in the Christian bible, but would align the Christian Bible against other religions teachings such as the Jewish Bible, Pagan teachings, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and even what is considered today as Greek and Roman Mythology. The class would be a reflective look into the similarities and differences held within these faiths. It would allow the students that elect to take the class to compare the literary accounts of Creationism as it relates to each religion, and see the similar stories that were used to explain how it all began, and it would allow the students to see that many religions do indeed have similarities.

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