I don't know if you've seen the ads, I don't know if they exist on regular network television, but I'm presuming they do. I wouldn't know because I've been watching nothing but TBN for about two months now. I don't normally write about political issues because, well, normally I feel that I don't' really know enough about the topic to really pitch in. I have to admit that I don't really keep up with current events the way the I ought to. But I was a little surprised at my reactions to the PSAs by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools that I've been seeing lately, starring Chuck Norris and his wife Geena.

When I first saw these PSAs endorsing the introduction of Bible curriculum I was angered. I thought it was indicative of the typical Christcentric thinking that seems more and more like an aberration on our culture. I'm not against Christianity, and I understand that "witnessing," as it were, is a major component of the religion. Something about compassion.

If I've learned anything in the past few months of watching the Trinity Broadcasting Network it is this: people that haven't accepted Jesus Christ as their savior are destined to the Lake of Fire, because no man is free from sin therefore no man gets to God but by Jesus Christ — or something like that, I wasn't really paying close attention.

So witnessing and converting are seen as acts of compassion by those in the Christian faith. In a special called "Way of the Master," Kirk Cameron compared it to rescuing children playing in the bottom of an elevator shaft from a falling elevator car. I'm pretty sure I'm getting that right. I am of course speaking as an outsider looking in, but I think that I'm being fair, and I am by no means attempting to make fun of the Christian dogma itself. If people really believe that I'm going to a real place called Hell if I'm not saved, then I don't think it's funny that they want to share their faith with me. I can recognize this is their love, or at the very least their compassionate concern for my soul.

Now that I've properly disclaimed myself, let me get on with the Bible curriculum. I think that introducing Bible education into the classroom is in great danger of becoming indoctrination because of the way the Western education system works. Students are rarely taught to question what they are learning (at least not until college).