Typical Bible Class in Public School

"Georgia legislature close to allowing Bible classes in Public Schools"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258020,00.html

The article says:

"The measure calls for the courses to be taught "in an objective and nondevotional manner...""

The word "objective" means: " not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased"
The word "devotion" means: "profound dedication; consecration.", so "nondevotional" would be the opposite of this

So the above sentence is actually saying:

"We are going to teach the Bible without any real dedication or reverence, and we surely won't allow teachers to inject their own personal feelings, interpretations, or anything else that might hint to the fact that people actually believe what this book says. We will also make sure that we will apply to the "word of truth" some other higher form of truth (such as Darwinism) to make sure that we don't mistakenly present the Bible as the truth, because that, as we all know, would be the most terrible horrible thing a teacher could do."

Here is how I envision a typical Public School Bible Class:

TEACHER: "Students get out your Bible's (probably any one of the "Gender Neutral" Bible translations that are out there today) ok read Genesis 1:27"

STUDENTS:

"So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them."

TEACHER: "Ok now I must apply an objective nondevotional truth to this statement lest you be tempted to actually believe what it says."

(teacher walks to the chalk board and begins writing)

"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." - Charles Darwin

TEACHER: "OK class, since we know Charles Darwin to be true, what can we conclude about Genesis 1:27?"

(JOHNNY RAISES HIS HAND AND TURNS DOWN HIS IPOD)

TEACHER: "Yes Johnny?"

JOHNNY: "Um...is it that the "image of God" fictitiously and metaphorically applied to man in Genesis 1:27 is merely the "indelible stamp of his lowly origin" that Darwin truthfully concluded?"

TEACHER: "Very good Johnny, A+ work!" (by the way this is the only answer the teach is allowed to give in reponse to a student (in order to protect the student's self esteem) unless, of course, the student concludes that what the Bible says is true, in that case the Student must be suspended from school for proselityzing.)

(JOHNNY CRANKS HIS IPOD BACK UP AND TEXTS HIS PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND TO BOAST OF HIS INTELLIGENCE)

(BELL RINGS AND STUDENTS RUSH OFF TO SEX-ED)

....What a victory for the Gospel!!!


2 Timothy 2:15: Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.