Our local public high school offers a pair of Bible as literature classes as electives. Given that the Bible is something that any culturally literate Westerner should have read at least once, I certainly have no problem with these courses as long as they stay out of the doctrinal issues.
I agree. Our school books also use Biblical stories as examples.
It also uses the standard "cultural experiences"/ethnic-specific stories, but I don't mind. If it gets minorities more interested in reading in school, whatever. It's not like they are any worse than the stories they'd pick if they weren't looking for cultural diversity anyway.
I think the curriculum complaints presented are oftentimes a little overblown.
