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Denounces opinion on Bible courses

Web posted December 1, 1999

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Editor, The Chronicle

Regarding Bible courses in public schools, Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker was quoted saying, ``It is my official opinion that courses that include reference to the Bible may survive First Amendment scrutiny only if their content is determined to be secular and they are taught in a secular, objective manner.''

Mr. Baker can label his position ``official,'' but it is not historical -- and is traitorous, to say the least.

For hundreds of years the Bible was the basis of education in government schools because our government was established with the Bible as the foundation of all education and law.

The First Amendment was written by Bible-respecting gentlemen, not by savages, pagans, barbarians, Hindus, Buddhists or Muslims.

The First Amendment pertains not to false religions but true religion, that which is governed by the Bible. It is only recently in our country's history that idiots have applied the ``establishment of religion'' clause in the First Amendment to include false religions. An establishment of religion is a particular denomination (i.e. there is to be no state church.)

Even today, there are many false religions that are still prohibited by our Bible-based legal system. Human sacrifice and temple prostitution which make up many false religions in the world are not only prohibited by our country's laws, but discriminated against.

The Indian practice of ``Sati,'' where a widow would be burned to death on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband, is still practiced in some places in India today but is not respected or tolerated by our civilized constitutional laws, although it is some people's ``religion.'' Attorney General Baker, as a fool and a traitor to this country, does not speak for hundreds of years of American history when he seeks to ban the only source of education from America's classrooms.

Rev. Timothy Fellows Sr., Augusta