Teach it completely sans any religious dogma

#2 | POSTED BY HAMBURGLAR

In other words ... stop teaching the Bible in public schools and "teach the controversy"!

(Their words)

And the condensed version 100%.

#3 | POSTED BY TOR

We could condense the Ten Commandments into one.

And we could call it the Golden Rule.

Which, by the way , was originally dreamed of and created by folks who never heard or read a Bible.

Proving that morals don't come from the Bible and that you don't need a Bible to have morals in this world.

"Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." " Thales[12] (c.624 " c.546 BCE)

"What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either." " Sextus the Pythagorean.[13] The oldest extant reference to Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era.[14]

"Ideally, no one should touch my property or tamper with it, unless I have given him some sort of permission, and, if I am sensible I shall treat the property of others with the same respect." " Plato[15] (c.420 " c.347 BCE)

"Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you." " Isocrates[16] (436"338 BCE)

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living pleasantly." " Epicurus (341"270 BC) where "justly" refers to "an agreement made in reciprocal association of ... against the infliction or suffering of harm."[17]

-wiki

Hers a couple more.

In Chapter 32 in the Book of Virtue of the Tirukkua (c.1st century BCE to 5th century CE), Valluvar says:

Do not do to others what you know has hurt yourself.
"Kural 316[10]

Why does one hurt others knowing what it is to be hurt?
"Kural 318[10]

That's pretty much how I learned it in public school.

#7 | POSTED BY TOR

And Republicans are obviously trying to change that.