Biblically speaking

(In response to Will Munsil’s Wednesday column, “Putting the Bible back in public schools.”)

I recently got a letter published stating how much I agreed with Will Munsil’s article in which he implored conservatives to find stable grounds of logic.

I find it ironic that his most recent article reeks of hard right conservatism. To say that our public schools should make the Bible required reading makes me wonder if Munsil truly believes this or if it’s his attempt to get back into conservative good graces after his aforementioned article.

Most disturbing is how he defends his view by trying to say it’s really for the good of Shakespeare and Dante and that reading the Bible helps kids get better grades.

Nowhere in his half-a-dozen-author-and-book-referenced article does he mention why tens of millions of Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists and people of any other belief should have their tax dollars used to force their kids to learn about Jesus Christ at school?

While Munsil brings up a handful of stories that have comparisons to those within the Bible, why not mandate stories of the Greek and Roman gods? They include well-known stories like the “Iliad” and “The Odyssey” written by Homer centuries before the Bible was even written.

Conservatives often accuse President Barack Obama of trying to indoctrinate our youth, but what do you call Munsil’s idea to force them all to learn about Christianity through the Bible?

Meda Saber
Undergraduate