Brush off your iambic pentameter, ye Wonklings, because this week, homeschooling advocate, radio preacher, and culture warrior Kevin Swanson is taking on that arch-apostate, the Immortal Bard Of Avon. We've been reading Swanson's not-quite-bestselling e-book
God preordained the crucifixion and created the people who would do it, and then punished those people for carrying out His plan. Which is a total dick move. Sorry Swanson, but I'm not sure that we should trust this God guy. He sounds like a bit of a sociopath.
Funny, but none of my lit classes in high school and college ever drew any parallels between the Bard's works and Christianity. Not a hint of it even from the nuns who taught English classes in Catholic high school. This was no doubt even more evidence of the utter perversion and corruption of Western thought, probably. (Most of those classes were taught to me during that consummately sinful and blasphemous decade, the 1960s, so Q.E.D.)
If Swanson gets so apoplectic about Shakespeare then I cringe to think of what he must have said about Chaucer&#039;s <i>The Miller&#039;s Tale.</i>
I just read the unabridged Little Women (god help me, it was free on Kindle), and it was Marmee&#039;s very favoritest book, and she gave each of her girls a copy for Xmas, each bound in their favorite colour, and they read them all the time and kept talking about the important lessons they learned from it. Alcott was really appallingly preachy.
Surely the Moorish knave doth defy the law of causation anon. Perhaps we should consult Derpak Chopra on the cosmic chakra alignments necessary to comprehend god&#039;s intended meaning?
God preordained the crucifixion and created the people who would do it, and then punished those people for carrying out His plan. Which is a total dick move. Sorry Swanson, but I&#039;m not sure that we should trust this God guy. He sounds like a bit of a sociopath.
Funny, but none of my lit classes in high school and college ever drew any parallels between the Bard&#039;s works and Christianity. Not a hint of it even from the nuns who taught English classes in Catholic high school. This was no doubt even more evidence of the utter perversion and corruption of Western thought, probably. (Most of those classes were taught to me during that consummately sinful and blasphemous decade, the 1960s, so Q.E.D.)
Makes God sound like a bit of a dick, doesn&#039;t it? Or like a typical project or team leader in 21st century America.
&ldquo;homosexuality seems to accompany the rejection of the Christian order and ,&rdquo;
Actually, Kev, it&#039;s the rise of humanism that leads to rejection of your lazy, idiotic beliefs.
If Swanson gets so apoplectic about Shakespeare then I cringe to think of what he must have said about Chaucer&#039;s <i>The Miller&#039;s Tale.</i>
Deus IN machina.
I thought it was instructions to the lighting crew.
Or maybe he was annoyed about a first down.
This one should get an internet, for sure.
Just as a data point, I tried that once. I think I might have made it to page fifty.
I just read the unabridged Little Women (god help me, it was free on Kindle), and it was Marmee&#039;s very favoritest book, and she gave each of her girls a copy for Xmas, each bound in their favorite colour, and they read them all the time and kept talking about the important lessons they learned from it. Alcott was really appallingly preachy.
Surely the Moorish knave doth defy the law of causation anon. Perhaps we should consult Derpak Chopra on the cosmic chakra alignments necessary to comprehend god&#039;s intended meaning?
So Mrs Shakespeare was the Beard of Avon?
<i>&quot;*We hope you&rsquo;ll forgive us for skipping his chapters on Nietzsche, Sartre, and John Dewey&quot;</i>
Hey! No spoilers, please!
I blame the time-traveling Moor, Obama, for Shakespeare&#039;s apostasy.
Sir Patrick Stewart would have words with thee, Swanson.
Death by a thousand papercuts