Issue 104
News: The Bible Literacy Project
There is a group bent on bringing the Bible back to schools in another form. The group is the Bible Literacy Project, whose new textbook for public schools is gaining a lot of controversy. The book, The Bible and its Influence, has been written for the Bible-studying electives in Public Schools. These electives are allowed only if they do not promote religion itself, but knowledge thereof. However, the textbook straddles the line between promoting Christianity, and being neutral. Although the textbook claims that the book was written with the help of scholars from many different religions, The Bible Literacy Project is helmed primarily by people active in the Religious Right, including their president, Chuck Stetson, a campaign donor to President Bush, and head to many organizations dedicated to knocking down the wall of Church and State. As you might have inferred, the book pays lip service to not openly advocating religion within its pages, but the glaring thing noticed is that while it is supposed to cover the influence of the Bible, which is the most influential book of all time, it does not mention misuses of the Bible in any of its 392 pages. Sure, there have been many positive things which have been facilitated through men whose arguments came from the Bible, but there have also been just as many bad things. One major example can be found in the Civil Rights struggles of the 50s and 60s. Martin Luther King Jr used metaphors from the Bible to justify Black freedom, but most if not all supporters of Segregation used the Bible to justify their injustice. Of course, there are more important things which need to be taught in schools. The Bible is not one of them, and if you want to learn about it, you can always go to your church or read it at home.
Band Names: The Dirt Gods. Watch this.
Film Ideas: A man walks into his 10-year high school reunion and feels he has to choose between his fiancee, the popular girl whom he lusted after in high school, and her neurotic Persona-obsessed best friend who lusts after him.
Film Review: The Last Temptation of Christ. This movie may actually be a somewhat accurate version of the events of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, including several redone versions of several of the classic naturalistic (not involving miracles) stories of the Gospels, despite denying that it is supposed to be an actual adaptation of the Gospels. Surpsisingly, the film has become less controversial in the past 2 decades in its "life."
Quote of the Day: " If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad."
___________Jeffrey Kluger, "What Makes us Good?"
Better Yet, "If the entire human species were a single individual, his name would be Hannibal Lecter."
_______Me.
Link of the Day: Jodie Foster finally acknowledges her lesbian lover and the Apocalypse begins.
There is a group bent on bringing the Bible back to schools in another form. The group is the Bible Literacy Project, whose new textbook for public schools is gaining a lot of controversy. The book, The Bible and its Influence, has been written for the Bible-studying electives in Public Schools. These electives are allowed only if they do not promote religion itself, but knowledge thereof. However, the textbook straddles the line between promoting Christianity, and being neutral. Although the textbook claims that the book was written with the help of scholars from many different religions, The Bible Literacy Project is helmed primarily by people active in the Religious Right, including their president, Chuck Stetson, a campaign donor to President Bush, and head to many organizations dedicated to knocking down the wall of Church and State. As you might have inferred, the book pays lip service to not openly advocating religion within its pages, but the glaring thing noticed is that while it is supposed to cover the influence of the Bible, which is the most influential book of all time, it does not mention misuses of the Bible in any of its 392 pages. Sure, there have been many positive things which have been facilitated through men whose arguments came from the Bible, but there have also been just as many bad things. One major example can be found in the Civil Rights struggles of the 50s and 60s. Martin Luther King Jr used metaphors from the Bible to justify Black freedom, but most if not all supporters of Segregation used the Bible to justify their injustice. Of course, there are more important things which need to be taught in schools. The Bible is not one of them, and if you want to learn about it, you can always go to your church or read it at home.
Band Names: The Dirt Gods. Watch this.
Film Ideas: A man walks into his 10-year high school reunion and feels he has to choose between his fiancee, the popular girl whom he lusted after in high school, and her neurotic Persona-obsessed best friend who lusts after him.
Film Review: The Last Temptation of Christ. This movie may actually be a somewhat accurate version of the events of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, including several redone versions of several of the classic naturalistic (not involving miracles) stories of the Gospels, despite denying that it is supposed to be an actual adaptation of the Gospels. Surpsisingly, the film has become less controversial in the past 2 decades in its "life."
Quote of the Day: " If the entire human species were a single individual, that person would long ago have been declared mad."
___________Jeffrey Kluger, "What Makes us Good?"
Better Yet, "If the entire human species were a single individual, his name would be Hannibal Lecter."
_______Me.
Link of the Day: Jodie Foster finally acknowledges her lesbian lover and the Apocalypse begins.
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