Bibles Everywhere!

Title: Richard Dawkins supports school Bible plan

Subject: Leading atheist Richard Dawkins says he supports the plan to put a Bible in every English school.

Web Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18224114

Date: 26 May 2012

Summary:

There is this privately funded distribution of King James Bibles that began this month to mark its 400^th anniversary. This Bible was a new translation requested by King James I, who was unhappy with existing translations. Now a distribution of these Bibles to schools has started and Richard Dawkins, an atheist, supports this. Why? Because of the common misconception that the Bible is a good guide to morality. As he puts it: "Whatever else the Bible might be - and it really is a great work of literature - it is not a moral book and young people need to learn that important fact because they are very frequently told the opposite." Not only would it educate young people on what exactly the Bible is but it is also a very important work of literature as many English allusions come from this translation-- think of “No peace for the wicked (Isaiah 57:21), The blind leading the blind (Matthew 15:13) and God forbid (Romans 13:1)”

Opinion:

It does not look very inviting, does it?

I have never read a Bible. I really have no clue as to what it actually says other then what I have heard people shout about it. Perhaps I should read it once. I think it is good that the children on school can now freely read this King James Bible. There is just one problem: Will they? Even if I was offered the chance to read the Bible back on high school, I really would not have jumped at the chance, and I do not think it will be much different for these kids. The fact that it is literature will not help the case either, I used to hate any books with the label literature because the few literary books I was forced to read I found very depressing back then. So although I think it is a good initiative, whether kids will actually read these newly distributed Bibles remains to be seen.