[honeychile]

So, you all think that a high school kid shouldn't know what a Jezebel is, or a Pandora's box, Mother Earth, or karma? Because each of these are phrases that are part and parcel of our daily vocabulary.

I gave a few examples of some of the Biblical phrases that I remembered from high school. The Rolling Stones called a greatest hits album Through the Past Darkly as a play on "through the glass darkly", while the Byrds used "To everything there is a season" from Ecclesiastes in their song Turn, Turn, Turn. The tv show My Name Is Earl is BASED on karma, for pete's sake!

I would be totally against the teaching of the actual religion itself in a public school, but I think a kid who doesn't know these type of phrases is already years behind in literature.