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Just because the Bible has a ton of useful allegories doesn’t mean I want to read and analyze it for school. This goes without saying for all religious texts. I don’t want to read them. Feels like forced conversion.
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My AP lit teacher in my public bay area HS had us quote the Bible to enhance our essays claiming that there are many allegories that would help us get a 4/5 on the AP exam. She wasn’t indoctrinating us, she was exposing a corrupt grading system bias.
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2 upvotes, 10 comments. Yik Yak poll by Anonymous in US Politics. "My AP lit teacher in my public bay area HS had us quote the Bible to enhance our essays claiming that there are many allegories that would help us get a 4/5 on the AP exam. She wasn’t indoctrinating us, she was exposing a corrupt grading system bias."
keep religion out of schools
include all religions in schools
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Anonymous 15w

It’s fine if the Bible is included in a holistic theology class, but it shouldn’t be included by itself outside of theology or maybe philosophy classes.

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Anonymous 15w

They made us read Romeo and Juliet and I felt they were indoctrinating us because we had to read it :(((

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Anonymous 15w

i had to read it for school it was honestly so helpful for american lit

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Anonymous 15w

I mean you’re doing yourself a disservice if you have no knowledge of any religious text. This is coming from someone atheist adjacent(?) (don’t ask idk either). But like it or not, religion shaped art, social structures and wars for centuries. You’d benefit to have like, some basic understanding of religious texts just to get the context behind how societies were shaped for so long

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Anonymous 15w

I- The bible is the most significant historical fiction in history and you think analyzing that is CONVERSION?!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15w

Didn’t know there was a religion made around Romeo and Juliet what a stupid take.

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Anonymous 15w

Only I pray to them

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 15w

I think analyzing it for strictly literature purposes might be fine? Idk. I went to a private school (didn’t have to read the Bible, it was nondenominational) and there were some books and short stories where I was struggling to analyze things. I’m Hindu (not super religious though) and my English teacher told me the allegories I wasn’t seeing were basically all Biblical allegories

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 15w

Or maybe we can just not expect people to pick out biblical allegories, but that could limit what literature can be taught

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 15w

Yeah that’s fine too.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 15w

Yeah I’m fine if teacher just say “oh this is from the Bible” or “what do you think this text means when we look at the context in the Bible”. I would just be against morally loading statements from the Bible or just teaching allegories without a holistic view.

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Anonymous replying to -> blue__wave 15w

Definitely, that makes sense

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Anonymous replying to -> shrimp_fried_rice 15w

I’m good dude - I know I’m doing a disservice if I don’t know all the greatest artists but I didn’t learn them until my art history class senior year of undergrad I took a specific class on it and I’m chilling. Didn’t need to know that in HS. Same rules apply

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