Issue 65
News: What Does the Bible Say about ______? Whatever you want.
Once, when I was at the Library, I found a book called What Does the Bible Say About: The Ultimate A-Z resource. I was curious, so I glanced at it and read the paragraph about what they believed the Bible said about abortion and found the standard Christian Pro-life ideas encapsulated in a single paragraph. Of course, the Bible does not really cover the subject of abortion very well at all, and one of the few, if not probably the only explicit references it makes to termination of pregnancies (in exodus 21), says something to the effect of "if a man induces a miscarriage, and the woman survives, he will pay a fine of whatever the Judge wants him to pay, but if she dies, he must be killed." And if God indeed does view the life of fetuses as being on par with those of actual human beings, that may not really be saying much, because, after all, he managed to disown his annointed after failing (I would say he refused, but I may be overestimating the convictions of a character who used to throw things at musicians) to do a full My Lai on a neighboring tribe (1 Samuel 15). Another point to make is that one thing most Christians (indeed most enlightened people) today find morally repugnant, Slavery, is something fully sanctioned by the Bible, so long as as the masters do not beat their slaves to death. Upon further inspection, the Bible contradicts itself so many times that it is likely for two sides on an issue to use the Bible to support their claims. To put this in another way: Both The Klan and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used the same book to justify their diometrically opposed ideologies. So, until next time, remember that people who say that the Bible says only one thing about issues tend to not even really know what they're talking about.
Band Name of the Day: The Traumatic Breasts. In the movie But I'm a Cheerleader, when the characters talk about what made them gay, one guy said "Traumatic... breasts."
Film Idea of the Day: None.
Film Review of the Day: But I'm a Cheerleader. It's a film about a cheerleader named Megan suspected of "deviant Tendencies" (read: Homosexuality) which she only becomes aware of around 20 minutes in (even when she is seen making out with her boyfriend, but concentrating on the chests of her fellow cheerleaders.) She is sent to an ex-gay camp (which, in real life, don't work at all) where her parents (and later, she) try to get her to become heterosexual. Ultimately, she develops a friendship with another campmate, named Graham, which eventually blossoms into a romance, which leads to Megan's expulsion from the camp.
Quote of the Day: "It's your choice; you can run off with Megan and turn into a raging bull-dyke or, you can do the simulation and graduate and lead a normal life."
______Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty of Raging Bull) to Megan (Natasha Lyonne) in But I'm a Cheerleader
Link of the Day: Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? See various celebrities say why in this website.
Once, when I was at the Library, I found a book called What Does the Bible Say About: The Ultimate A-Z resource. I was curious, so I glanced at it and read the paragraph about what they believed the Bible said about abortion and found the standard Christian Pro-life ideas encapsulated in a single paragraph. Of course, the Bible does not really cover the subject of abortion very well at all, and one of the few, if not probably the only explicit references it makes to termination of pregnancies (in exodus 21), says something to the effect of "if a man induces a miscarriage, and the woman survives, he will pay a fine of whatever the Judge wants him to pay, but if she dies, he must be killed." And if God indeed does view the life of fetuses as being on par with those of actual human beings, that may not really be saying much, because, after all, he managed to disown his annointed after failing (I would say he refused, but I may be overestimating the convictions of a character who used to throw things at musicians) to do a full My Lai on a neighboring tribe (1 Samuel 15). Another point to make is that one thing most Christians (indeed most enlightened people) today find morally repugnant, Slavery, is something fully sanctioned by the Bible, so long as as the masters do not beat their slaves to death. Upon further inspection, the Bible contradicts itself so many times that it is likely for two sides on an issue to use the Bible to support their claims. To put this in another way: Both The Klan and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used the same book to justify their diometrically opposed ideologies. So, until next time, remember that people who say that the Bible says only one thing about issues tend to not even really know what they're talking about.
Band Name of the Day: The Traumatic Breasts. In the movie But I'm a Cheerleader, when the characters talk about what made them gay, one guy said "Traumatic... breasts."
Film Idea of the Day: None.
Film Review of the Day: But I'm a Cheerleader. It's a film about a cheerleader named Megan suspected of "deviant Tendencies" (read: Homosexuality) which she only becomes aware of around 20 minutes in (even when she is seen making out with her boyfriend, but concentrating on the chests of her fellow cheerleaders.) She is sent to an ex-gay camp (which, in real life, don't work at all) where her parents (and later, she) try to get her to become heterosexual. Ultimately, she develops a friendship with another campmate, named Graham, which eventually blossoms into a romance, which leads to Megan's expulsion from the camp.
Quote of the Day: "It's your choice; you can run off with Megan and turn into a raging bull-dyke or, you can do the simulation and graduate and lead a normal life."
______Mary Brown (Cathy Moriarty of Raging Bull) to Megan (Natasha Lyonne) in But I'm a Cheerleader
Link of the Day: Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? See various celebrities say why in this website.
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