How To Teach The Bible In Public Schools

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"How To Teach The Bible In Public Schools". This is a clip from The Atheist Experience #614, "TAM Recap. Matt recaps his visit to The Amazing Meeting 7.", with Matt Dillahunty and Martin Wagner.

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[gbaughma]

Atheism is a non-prophet organization. :)

[zpgJiggleBilly]

@rawwqq Up here in Montana, the bible was used in my mythology class.

[SinnFein4ever]

I think that we should deffinatly teach the bible in school.

I'd like the opportunity to bring mine to school and read from it.

(holds up a copy of the "Satanic Bible")

;)

[neverfearchrisishere]

@mythmanjay Or rather: At the moment America is buying 3rd rate screwdrivers and wondering why they fall apart when you look at them - and thinks the solution is to buy cheaper screw drivers.

[neverfearchrisishere]

@mythmanjay Well to continue your analogy. At the moment America is buying 3rd rate screwdrivers and wondering why they fall apart when you look at them. A complete waste of time and money.

The rate of pay of teachers is relevent to quality of the service. At the moment the pay is so low that only a useless nohoper would take the job

A good teacher can help make great people who do great things, a bad teacher is a complete waste of time. Low pay and oversized classes encourages the latter

[mythmanjay]

@neverfearchrisishere ARRRRRGH! Education IS NOT 'how to bury yourself in piles of tool and hope that there's something interesting built on top of you if you have enough tools'; education IS 'using the tools you have to build the most-useful products.' Maybe they DO do that in other countries, but MONEY IS ONLY A TOOL; maybe YOU would choose 'ten crappy screwdrivers' over 'one good screwdriver that lasts a hundred times longer'; but the latter will fasten ten times more bolts than the former.

[neverfearchrisishere]

@mythmanjay Other countries spend far more of schools. and geuss what, they have far more intelligent people coming out of schools.

Spend more on quality teachers (aka dont pay so little that teachers can't buy a new car once in a while) so your not just left with the crap ones that can't get work elsewhere. Spend more making class sizes smaller, you can't be expected to teach more than 20 children at once.

Works in the rest of the world, and they are just charging past the US in education.

[mythmanjay]

@NUTCASE71733 Okay, what I think I'm hearing you say is "Give these idiots (who are falsely using the public-ed. system) MORE money, and they will somehow see what they're doing wrong"? I don't think that'll worlk; you give them more money, they'll see whatever they're doing as 'the right thing.' But maybe you mean 'more & better equipment for the schools' when you say 'funding,' in which case I agree. NO MONEY, JUST TOOLS!

[longfootbuddy]

@NUTCASE71733 i understand youre in favor of forcing us all to pay for a public school system that decides what material to brainwash childrens minds with, but youre a nutcase.. you suggest i want to return people to the dark ages, and the tyranny of those ways of governing, but again, youre a nutcase, and i want no such thing.. i simply want to end the current tyranny and control of goverment, and be exluded from the theft and slavery you all call educational funding and goverment regulation

[NUTCASE71733]

@mythmanjay

Strawman argument. Jefferson himself said we'd benefit from a public education system AND WE HAVE. We have idiots like Bush, and creationists like the whole of the Texas School board wanting to fuck kids over. The fact you can't tell that point apart from your dishonest statement says a lot to most parents.

[NUTCASE71733]

@longfootbuddy

That's bullshit and you know it. that was not what I was meaning, asshat. Back in the dark ages only the rich, royals, and religious leaders were allowed to read. This allowed them to screw over the peasents left and right. What you suggest will put a cramp in the common man ultimately forcing them to not educate their kids. Even if they had home-school optins, therre thse who misuse thatsystm to instill religion down kids' throats like the founder of Conservapedia.