{"id":2622080,"date":"2026-07-01T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/replacing-gay-race-communism-with-bible-stories-in-school-is-a-good-start-to-saving-the-country\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:40:14","slug":"replacing-gay-race-communism-with-bible-stories-in-school-is-a-good-start-to-saving-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/replacing-gay-race-communism-with-bible-stories-in-school-is-a-good-start-to-saving-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching The Bible In Schools Is How We Save Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freplacing-gay-race-communism-with-bible-stories-in-school-is-a-good-start-to-saving-the-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2622080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Texas State Board of Education recently approved a statewide reading list that includes passages and stories from the Bible, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-relaxes-senate-dress-code-inviting-rebuke-from-some-republicans\/\" title=\"Schumer eases Senate dress code, drawing GOP criticism.\">prompting mixed reactions<\/a>. Critics accuse the move of religious indoctrination, while supporters argue it is indeed an essential part of understanding American and Western culture. They contend that teaching the Bible enhances knowledge of American history, literature, and cultural heritage, as many founding figures and past movements are influenced by biblical themes. Advocates emphasize that education should include cultural transmission and character formation, using biblical stories to instill virtues such as honesty, humility, and perseverance. They argue that curriculum is never neutral and that omitting the Bible amounts to ignoring a key element of American civilization. Comparing to other countries that incorporate religious texts into their education, supporters claim that integrating the Bible is necessary for truly understanding American identity and values, advocating for curriculum decisions that reflect the nation\u2019s cultural and historical roots.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Texas State Board of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/06\/22\/texas-votes-bible-history-lessons-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">approved<\/a> a mandatory statewide reading list that includes passages and stories from the Bible last week. <\/p>\n<p>Cue the exaggerated, sanctimonious complaints. \u201cThe Texas State Board of Education is misusing public schools to impose one narrow set of religious beliefs and indoctrinate a new generation of Americans in the lie that America is a Christian country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/texas-state-school-board-approves-mandated-reading-list-including-bible-passages-2026-06-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moaned<\/a> Americans United for Separation of Church and State. PEN America and the National Council of Teachers of English likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-curriculum-bible-board-vote-06530403ff91c10462382422003e109f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">offered customary denunciations<\/a> for mandating curriculum, something they of course have no problem supporting when it comes to Marxist content on race, sexuality, or the sexes.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the Texas education decision is exactly the kind of thing American boards of education at the state and local level should be instituting. As argued by the signers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/phoenix-declaration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Phoenix Declaration<\/a>, a 2025 document encouraging a revitalized American education curriculum, to teach the Bible isn\u2019t to evangelize or coercively impose one religious faith on students but rather to educate them about what constitutes Western (and, more particularly, American) civilization. Education administrators contemplating next year\u2019s curriculum should take note.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Culture Every American Should Know<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to be Jewish or Christian to know that the Bible has played an integral role in the history of the United States. The writings of the Founding Fathers are imbued with scriptural language, as are those of Abraham Lincoln and many other prominent American statesmen, even into the 20th century. Christianity inspired American efforts to end slavery, grant women the right to vote, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-legalizes-recreational-marijuana\/\" title=\"New York Legalizes Recreational Marijuana\">end racial discrimination<\/a>, among other noble causes. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, knowledge of the Bible helps make sense of the art and literature not only of the United States but of the broader Western civilization to which it is indebted. Ignorance of Scripture makes it harder to understand Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, or Chaucer, as well as Twain, Melville, Faulkner, Poe, or Hawthorne. To know American culture as a historical reality, you must know Scripture, regardless of whether you think it true and divine revelation, an admirable historical artifact, or nothing more than fanciful mythological nonsense. <\/p>\n<p>The Texas decision mandates that students learn about David and Goliath, Daniel in the lion\u2019s den, and a few of Jesus\u2019 teachings, among other things. Again, students (and their parents) are welcome to think whatever they like about these excerpts from Scripture, just as they are welcome to shrug at <em>Aesop\u2019s Fables<\/em>, the <em>Odyssey<\/em>, or Greek mythology. The fact of the matter is that biblical stories are foundational for understanding American civilization, and thus students\u2019 ignorance is an impoverishment of their education as informed citizens who know something about their cultural heritage and the religious beliefs that inspired and grounded the virtues of earlier generations.<\/p>\n<p>I have personal experience of this. Two decades ago, when I was teaching high school history at a public school, I showed the students the 1989 film <em>Henry V<\/em>. The titular character denounces several English noblemen for betraying him as akin to \u201canother fall of man.\u201d I asked the class if they knew what Shakespeare was talking about regarding the \u201cfall of man.\u201d Only one student, a Methodist, seemed to have any clue about \u201cthe fall,\u201d which is not only a theological doctrine but a theme found across Western literature and music. It was shameful. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Bible<\/strong> <strong>Transmits Culture and Forms Character<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Enter the Phoenix Declaration, an \u201cAmerican vision for education\u201d released last year and signed and supported by many names that should be familiar to Federalist readers, as demonstrated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/books\/phoenix-principles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently published series of essays on it<\/a>. The declaration cites Founding Father John Adams: \u201cPublic virtue cannot exist in a nation without private [virtue] \u2026 and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.\u201d For the sake of this virtue, the Phoenix Declaration affirms \u201cparental choice and responsibility,\u201d \u201ctransparency and accountability,\u201d \u201ctruth and goodness,\u201d \u201ccultural transmission,\u201d \u201ccharacter formation,\u201d \u201cacademic excellence,\u201d and \u201ccitizenship.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cultural transmission, argues author and academic Mark Bauerlein in one essay, \u201cis a core function of the curriculum.\u201d That transmission, says Bauerlein, requires background knowledge in a \u201cGrand Narrative\u201d that connects such pieces of literature as Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Julius Caesar<\/em> to the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, which were deeply influential in the creation of our own nation\u2019s government. Without any educational connection to a \u201cmomentous, unified past,\u201d our youth feel disconnected from their own nation and culture, engendering mistrust and depression. \u201cThe progressive way of blocking cultural transmission has created a giant hole in the curriculum, a void that leaves students uncertain as to where they stand,\u201d he observes. <\/p>\n<p>More than this, schools must also teach character formation, as Hillsdale faculty member Matthew Mehan argues in another essay. \u201cTo succeed in the most basic sense, a student needs virtues like honesty (no cheating), perseverance (no giving up), temperance (saying no to social media or video games), constancy (doing daily work and not foolishly cramming), friendliness (not quarreling such that one is thrown out of class), and many others.\u201d The stories of the Bible \u2014 again, whether or not you believe them to be historically true or assent to their theological meaning \u2014 serve to help with this character formation. Jesus doesn\u2019t have to be God for his teachings about humility and compassion to inspire us to be better humans (and citizens). <\/p>\n<h2><strong>There\u2019s No Such Thing as Neutral Education<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Critics of Texas and the Phoenix Declaration will argue that such curriculum is somehow a breach of the separation of church and state, an (unconstitutional) principle that for too long has exerted undue influence over public debates about education. The claim is flatly absurd. As Ryan Anderson argues in another essay, education is never value-neutral; it will form students \u201cin The Gospel of Hedonism or The Gospel of Autonomy or The Gospel of Expressive Individualism,\u201d or, alternatively, what we might call the \u201cGospel of Excellence.\u201d If you\u2019re a parent or recent graduate of public education, you can tell me what \u201cgospel\u201d they\u2019re teaching nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>If the 1619 Project and other <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >recent leftist educational initiatives<\/a> have taught us nothing else, it is that curriculum will inspire either thankfulness or derision toward our nation\u2019s past. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are either (flawed) great men who gifted us an incredible political and cultural heritage, or they are racist misogynists to be dishonored. \u201cThere is no neutral curriculum,\u201d writes Anderson, and he\u2019s right. Ignoring God and the Bible is not neutral, but \u201chabituates a certain functional atheism,\u201d as well as a sentiment of anti-Americanism. <\/p>\n<p>Teaching the Bible should not be controversial, and it wasn\u2019t until recent decades. Other civilizations around the world get this, and we hear no complaints from the left. In Turkey, knowledge of the Quran opens up your ability to understand Turkish civilization, whether or not you are Muslim. The same is true in India regarding its revered Hindu texts or in Thailand regarding its Buddhist ones. To think you can understand these people and their cultures without reference to their religion and revered texts is both stupid and insulting. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for Americans of all political and religious stripes to acknowledge the same about the Bible. As parents and educators think about next year\u2019s curriculum, they should consider whether it actually aligns with anything resembling our nation\u2019s unique character and whether it will help the next generation of Americans to assume the remarkable responsibilities bequeathed to us by those virtuous men and women who came before us.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Casey Chalk is a senior contributor at The Federalist and an editor and columnist at The New Oxford Review. He is a regular contributor at many publications and the author of three books, including the upcoming &#8220;Wisdom From the Cross: How Jesus\u2019 Seven Last Words Teach Us How to Live (and Die)&#8221; (Sophia Institute Press, 2026).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas approves Bible-based curriculum amid controversy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":2622081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bible-in-Classroom-Photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[25771,5152,9484,10248,5008],"class_list":["post-2622080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-civics","tag-education","tag-morality","tag-religion","tag-teaching"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Bible-in-Classroom-Photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622084,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622080\/revisions\/2622084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2622081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}