03-15-2016, 12:49 PM
(03-15-2016, 11:04 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Here is a good reason why some people are concerned about how this will work out in practice
"Senate Bill 278, sponsored by State Sen. Robin Webb, D-Grayson, was unanimously approved Thursday by the Senate Education Committee.
Webb said the Bible is the cornerstone of literature."
In all honesty, he isn't entirely off base. Arguments could be made that literacy rates, especially in English speaking countries, can be attributed to the Bible. It was often said that people learned to read, at least among the lower classes, so they could read the Bible. The German language is what it is today because of Martin Luther's German translation of the Bible and there would be no unified German language without it. I'm sure the same could be said for other languages as well. Without these things, literature as we know it today would not exist.
