Reply #69: Right: curriculum already in 37 states, and brand new textbook

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called "The Bible and Its Influence" produced by the Bible Literacy Project. Here's an article from May 2005 about it:

The "Bible Literacy Report" underscored the educational need with a Gallup poll of scriptural knowledge among 1,002 U.S. teens (margin of error: plus or minus 3 percentage points). Only 8 percent of the public school pupils said their schools offer Bible courses, which seemed obvious from these results:

* 17 percent thought "the road to Damascus" was where Jesus was crucified.

* 22 percent thought Moses was either one of Jesus' 12 apostles, Egypt's pharaoh or an angel, rather than the man who led Israel out of bondage.

* 68 percent couldn't identify who asked "am I my brother's keeper?" (Cain, after he murdered Abel).

* 28 percent didn't realize that "do not divorce" isn't among the Ten Commandments.

* 53 percent couldn't say what biblical event occurred at Cana (Jesus turned water into wine).

Besides fears of legal trouble, lack of qualified teachers and crowded curriculums, many schools hesitate to offer Bible courses because adequate textbooks acceptable to various religious groups are lacking.

That's the Bible Literacy Project's next phase. In the Fall of 2005 it will release a textbook, "The Bible and Its Influence," currently being tested in schoolrooms. The organization says it's the first such textbook in 35 years to benefit from thorough scholarly review.
http://www.bibleliteracy.org/Site/News/bibl_news050509APWire.htm

btw, I get your point about Phillips, but I didn't give a crap was she was saying during the CNN transcript, only Miller and Johnson. :)