Happy Nice Time Update: See end of post! The Tennessee House voted Wednesday to name the Bible the official state book. But don't worry, it's not a violation of the First Amendment, because the people who wrote the bill said, nahh, it's exactly like a state song or a state bird, and nobody complains that those violate the Constitution, do they? And then they turned right around and said that they had to make the Bible the state book to show that Tennessee loves Jesus a whole bunch.
i have. more than once. it is one of the reasons i left the church. if you actually read the thing, it is hard to defend most of it. at least if you use you head for more than a place to keep your hair.
We'll see. I doubt they came all the way to Arkansas to shine his hiney.
At least someone in the "mainstream media" has picked it up.
It's just so tiresome, with atheists - the unending struggle to get them to accept basic morality.
Kentucky Ham is remarkable too - oh. Uh, wrong red state.
Well, c'mon, what kind of reprobate would even dream of objecting to God's holy and oh-so-literal Word*?
* the 66-book Protestant version, surely
You have to go to church with the Vulgate you've got, not the Tynsdale you wish you had.
What are you sniggering at? I bet I got it right.
I would have guessed that the official state horse was the dead horse, for beating.
Jimmy the Greek?
Heretic! New Jerulsalem Bible, Second Edition, English Translation, or GTFO.
The Bible is like most classic books. Everyone lies and says they've read the whole thing.
i have. more than once. it is one of the reasons i left the church. if you actually read the thing, it is hard to defend most of it. at least if you use you head for more than a place to keep your hair.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco and Somalia are theocracies? Since when?
Exciting update: There is a God!
Or at least a few pockets of common sense in Tennessee. I don't know, both possibilities seem unlikely.
Fox in Socks! Because nothing would be more hilarious than listening to Tennesseeans reading it aloud for the first time!
So what you're saying is, Tennessee wants a state book, but an eighth of the population wouldn't be able to read it. Gotcha.
Anathema! Scofield Reference Bible, Oxford University Press, 1909!