Bible Literacy

poliscizac over at AlabamaElections has a good post about the Bible literacy bill that was introduced in the Legislature this session.

Comments posted by readers of Zac's entry show the problem with the whole issue of religion in schools. (Let's set aside the fact that schools can already teach Bible lit classes. My high school had such a class when I was there.)

If people can't agree on the means of teaching a class on the Bible as literature, then how do they expect to find any meaningful agreement on prayer in school or teaching "intelligent design."

Even those of us who are Christians have honest differences of opinion on what it means to be Christian and what the Bible tells us.

If we can't agree on the Christian message we want to present to one another, why should we want to expose such a message to non-believers?