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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How's Shakespeare different from the Bible in your "it's the literary basis of 'Murca" thing?[/quote]

Ideally both would get taught at some point. But there's no way to get the bible in school - even treated as text and not as part of religion- so I don't pretend to hope for it.

And by 'Murica, you mean "All of English literature."[/quote]

I’m pretty sure you can teach world religions and religious texts as literature in public schools. schools that don’t are making a choice not to. the first amendment doesn’t prohibit it at all. [/quote]

Even if that were true, why not teach the Quran then? It has many of the same underlying stories plus a bunch more. It's arguably also more relevant to understanding the world today and recent geopolitics. But why don't you see how well that argument would fly with certain Christians who claim that reading the Bible in public schools is just teaching "literature".[/quote]

Because the Quran obviously does not influence English literature in the same way. But sure, in a world religions class.[/quote]

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