{"id":545,"date":"2005-09-23T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-24T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/23\/godless-bible-designed-for-public-scho"},"modified":"2005-09-23T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-24T01:03:22","slug":"godless-bible-designed-for-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/23\/godless-bible-designed-for-public-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Godless Bible Designed for Public Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7101'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/biblenogod.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">NEW YORK &#8212; An interfaith group released<br \/>\n        a new textbook yesterday aimed at teaching public high school students<br \/>\n        about the Bible while avoiding legal and religious disputes.<\/p>\n<p>      The nonprofit Bible Literacy Project of Fairfax, Va., spent five years<br \/>\n      and $2 million developing &#8221;The Bible and Its Influence.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>      The textbook, introduced during a Washington news conference, won initial<br \/>\n      endorsements from specialists in literature, religion, and church-state<br \/>\n      law.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>So, if the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/21#a7090\">100-minute<br \/>\n        Bible<\/a> still has too much God<br \/>\n      in it for your taste, you can try this completely Religion-free Bible Book,<br \/>\n    which appearantly explains and describes the Bible without advocating actually<br \/>\n    believing in any of it. A tricky task for the textbook Talleyrands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>We certainly hope if this questionable text ever actually<br \/>\n      reaches the classroom, that it is taught in a unit that gives equal time<br \/>\n      to the Torah, the Quoran, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/education\/k_12\/articles\/2005\/09\/23\/bible_course_for_public_schools_unveiled\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; An interfaith group released a new textbook yesterday aimed at teaching public high school students about the Bible while avoiding legal and religious disputes. The nonprofit Bible Literacy Project of Fairfax, Va., spent five years and $2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/23\/godless-bible-designed-for-public-schools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}