Once again you have gone to bat for Baptist principles. Your editorial in the Feb. 2 issue is right on the mark. Baptists sitting in the pew need to hear the truth and read true reports of Baptist happenings. We do not need to be fed only the information boards or trustee chairmen want us to hear. Thank you for your courage to take a stand.
In the same issue, the article on the Legislature considering a Bible curriculum for Alabama public schools emphasizes the reason such a course should be denounced by all Baptists. Some are for the chosen curriculum book; others are against the content, and some see both good and bad. In the end, who will get to choose what our children are taught about the Bible? Surely no Baptist would agree it should be government officials. The Bible should be taught in our homes and in church.
It may be a “hard fact” that the courts have ruled that public schools can have Bible teaching. The real facts are that it is impossibly hard to do correctly or in a manner that will please even the majority, much less please every one involved.
Baptists’ forefathers understood this much better because they had recently come from countries where government and church were mixed. I am afraid that the history of Christianity most Baptists (as well as most Protestants) of today have studied has been filtered way too much, just as some are want to do with the news of today.
Mac McFatter
Semmes, Ala.
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