[Buckeye McFrog]

It also encourages the teaching of the Bible in public schools because, the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is “indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.”

The NY Times is a newspaper. It is allegedly written in English. Therefore they obviously know that a huge number of our idioms in American English come from the BIBLE. Hence it is essential knowledge even to atheists.

[TangledUpInBlue]

That’s a stretch. Religion of any sort has no business being taught in public schools.