'God is Dead' Poster Stays in Public School Classroom

Author: Chris Foltz
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Alcovy High School in Newton County, Ga., is in the middle of a controversy over separation of church and state, but this time it's not inclusion of religion that's at the root of the problem, but the exclusion.

Students at Alcovy High have been studying Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," which uses the Salem Witch Trials to comment on the communist hearings of the McCarthy era.

As part of a project, some of the students produced a "Crucible" poster that features the phrase "God is dead," which is a line from the play (as well as a famous line from Friedrich Nietzsche).

The mother of one student  has complained about the poster being displayed in a classroom, but so far school officials have said that the poster will stay up.

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