Public Schools, Teachers, and the Bible / by kevin murray

No country on earth has as many lawyers as America, and the problem with too many lawyers, is that in order to stay busy and to make money lawyers like to stir up mischief, to which this mischief making can have quite negative consequences.  For instance, in today's America, there are all sorts of legal cases in regards to religious liberties, permissions, and prohibitions that are so convoluted, twisted, contradictory, and troubling that it isn't really clear what teachers can or cannot teach or permit within their classrooms in regards to religious expression or the teaching of such.

 

The most fundamental error that has been permitted into American jurisprudence like a virus that cannot be eradicated, is that somehow, somewhere, within our Constitution, or Declaration of Independence, there is some clearly delineated statement to the effect that this American government has mandated that there is to be a separation of State and religion, and that this specific separation must have an unbreachable wall between State and church.  The effect of this sort of misguided interpretation of Constitutional law and the policy forthwith that follows is that by forcefully eliminating the Bible, religious thought, religious interpretation, and religious interrelation with great literature and their interrelationship from the very foundations of this country's schools you have effectively torn down the very edifice that this great country rests upon.   

 

Most teachers in public schools, whether religious or not, want to be not only good teachers, but also want to obey the law, to which today's law puts any teacher who is religious or a respecter of such, under severe pressure to eliminate religion and all aspects of religious thinking from the classroom at all costs.  This means, in absence of religion, in absence of an admittance of a Creator, that students are compelled to believe that their existence itself is material only, and without purpose or morals or anything other than happenstance. 

 

The fact of the matter is, if a teacher cannot affirm the importance and influence of any Biblical passages whatsoever; that she cannot site in class specific Biblical passages, or their meaning, or anything touching upon religion, even unable to write a scriptural passage into a student's yearbook, than whatever is being taught to students is not the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but is, in essence, a grand deception foisted upon these impressionable students.

 

While it is one thing to say that Christianity cannot be held to be the established religion of America and be right about that; it is an entirely different thing to say that the teacher's rights or the student's rights at a public school, paid for by the taxes of the people, cannot thereby exercise their Constitutional right to have religious expression when they enter onto public school grounds. 

 

The Bible is the most important and the most influential book in the history of Western mankind, so then to eliminate this good book, to pretend that this book violates within school premises Constitutional law, is wrong and the doing of such, is the very ruin of Western civilization.  If schools are not about truth, or the search for truth, than they are effectively propaganda machines of the State, and this godless State, and all those that support such, are in the process of and have re-birthed a new America: enslaved, lifeless, suppressed, despairing, and without liberty.