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Should the Bible Be Taught in Public Schools?

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By John M. Swomley

Charles R. Kniker is not only a fine scholar, but a recognized authority on Bible education. He states well the case for the objective teaching of the Bible in the public schools. But that case fits the period 1960 to 1980 better than it does the current and future decades, since the United States has become less of a homogeneous Christian society. The country is far more diverse than Kniker acknowledges. For example, there are more than five million Muslims in the U.S., a larger number than Episcopalians and Presbyterians, and a growing Asian immigration has brought us more […]

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Endnotes

1.

Minutes, Weekday Religious Education section, Annual Meeting, Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches, Dallas, Texas, February 14–16, 1967.

2.

177 F. Supp. 398, at 404 [Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1959]

3.

Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)

4.

Minutes, Weekday Religious Education section, Annual Meeting, Division of Christian Education, National Council of Churches, Dallas, Texas, February 14–16, 1967.

5.

Thayer Warshaw, “Studying the Bible in Public School,” The English Journal, February 1964.

6.

Scott G. McNall, “Make Scientific Study of Religion Defensible,” Minnesota Journal of Education, December 1967.