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Originally posted by Phasad1913
It could even be a course that teaches the cornerstones of all the religions at the same time. There are only 7 major ones (I think).
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We had this in high school. It was an elective, and it provided an overview of the history and belief systems of the major world religions. Some of the English classes read Bible stories (for instance, I think my fiance's class read the Book of Ruth in their unit on ancient myths and legends). While in my classes, we never directly read the Bible, I definitely used it a lot. I mean, for poetry explications and the like, it was pretty necessary - you try to make sense of John Donne without it!
I don't know about having an entire class on "The Bible as Literature" - that does seem a little extreme (and like catering to conservative Christian voters that really shouldn't be catered to, imo), it's something that does need to be included, in reasonable ways, in our curriculum. What I think is funny, though, is that most fundamentalist Christians will spit and scream if you tell them that the Bible is a literary and historical work and should be taught in schools in the same way that we teach Greek and Roman mythology ...