Yes, I am a Christian, and therefore I was brought up to believe in the teachings of the Christian church. However, the question that Wasserman posed in class in response to “The Bible and Our Public Debate,” got me thinking. I am not striving to answer the question of whether or not the Bible should be used in schools to teach morals, but rather I am asking why must it be the Bible.
The Bible is a religious text, and does include many of the morals and “commandments” that so many people believe in today. Other such texts as the Constitution [etc.] set laws for people to abide by, in order to keep peace and keep people in line. So we know of more than one source of these morals to live by, so why do we need to draw our new sense of evil, and not evil, out of the Bible?
The Bible was written by man, and cannot be proven in any way, shape, or form. That is where faith comes in (but that is a post for another day), and therefore people who do not have faith in Christianity, will probably not care about or listen to what the Bible says.
Maybe we could institute a new source of morals and laws to live by. Even if they are already existent in the Bible, we can recreate them, and make a system that works in today’s society, that is not linked directly to any religion or people. Take a look around you, find something that is truly original. The computer screen you are looking at, do you know who made the very first one? Or even the concept of the computer, when you think of it, does it bring up a certain person or brand? No, you probably think of a variety of computer manufactures, and so many other things that could be associated with computers. So what I am trying to say is that we do not need the Bible as this supreme set or moral codes which every one should abide by. It would be a million times more effective to institute a new and modern source for these concepts of good, bad, evil, and the right way to live; a source that could be accepted by everyone.
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