High School show must go on

Think of other high school productions. Would anyone assume that “Bye Bye Birdie” was expounding the virtues of the military draft? Or that “The Music Man” is an instructional source for trombone playing in orchestras?

Yet throughout the plays you find human emotions that force you to laugh, cry and think. And if you walk away with a thought, perhaps one that forces you to rethink your circumstances, then the production has done what all good art is intended to do.

FATHER VAZKEN MOVSESIAN

Armenian Church

In His Shoes Ministries

What’s with this voracious effort to completely divest our country of anything biblical?

The Separation Clause ensures no mandatory state religion or government interference in worship; it doesn’t insist we pretend the Bible doesn’t exist, or that it’s had nothing to do with our history (which it certainly has).

Schools have presented biblically themed plays in the past, like “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Godspell” and “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Christians haven’t been pleased with every stage interpretation, but I can say that such plays present some of the most interesting themes and recognizable subjects because we’re all somewhat familiar with them, and they’ve enjoyed popularity for millenniums.

Even Hollywood screenplays reference Scripture; “Pulp Fiction,” “The Number 23,” “The Matrix” and “Evan Almighty” come to mind. Should we deliberately make our students ignorant of the longest-running best-seller text and most read volume of all time (which has essentially defined Western civilization)?

Numerous plays of our world are performed, but why is the Bible off limits? Has America given itself completely to paganism?

THE REV. BRYAN GRIEM

Senior Pastor

MontroseCommunity Church.org