WHY NOT? WHY NOT READ THE BOOK? - David Jon Hill - February 1978

David Jon Hill

Again today I heard a fellow on the radio bemoaning the fact that we have too much religion in our school systems. "Under the Constitution we are supposed to separate church and state," he said , "but there are still some backward areas where they allow Bible reading in schools." He went on to complain that we should have freedom from this sort of thing; that religion has brought us nothing but narrow-mindedness, persecution and suppression. "God died back in the '60s. Why should we resurrect Him?" he complained. "The history of religion is one of the suppression of knowledge, the creation of martyrs and the sanction of innumerable 'holy wars,' not to mention book burnings and a repressive censorship of progressive writers. Therefore I recommend the banning of Bible reading and religious education in our school systems." The more I thought about that, the more upset I became. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library