You'd think that after a year and a half of reviewing rightwing Christianist textbooks we'd be incapable of being surprised, but wow: this week's look at how one of them covers the great Depression departs so sharply from what most of us call reality that you may want to strap in and wear a helmet to keep your brains from messing up your nice shag carpet.
Wow. So this is where Trump voters come from.... A good education! God help us.
Much respect to the eloquent post from the intelligent rational thinking person who had the misfortune to be shamelessly indoctrinated by people who have no place being around children; this kind of brainwashing of developing minds is unethical. And it didn't work on you; as soon as you were outside their influence your mind cleaned itself of this shit. But it takes a strong person to free themselves from dogmatic teaching, especially because they were never encouraged to think independently, something I think is one of the most important things for kids to learn.
Unfortunately you seem to be the exception, judging by the hordes of the faithful who love America so much they live in an alternate reality if it reaffirms their love. Real reality must be for the people who don't love America.
Stupid people are everywhere. Now I wonder how many of them were born that way and how many were "educated" into it....
Seeing the makers throw the dirty hippies and blahs under the bus, by any despicable means available, must foster some incredible freakin' blind faith in the security of their own future...
I&#039;ve been reading several of Professor Bart Ehrman&#039;s lay books (<i>Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities, Lost Scripture, Forged</i> on the start of the Jesus Movement (he and Elaine Pagels are considered apostates among true believer scholars. Ehrman, not Jesus). It started as an oral transmission (oh YEAH!) and began being written down in the late first century bce. There&#039;s been some interesting research about the great differences among early Christian groups as well as the link to messianic Judaism I think the majority of evangelicals would be shocked that some of the synoptic gospels are actually compilations written over a century or more by obviously different scribes. But when you already believe in biblical inerrancy scientific research is just witchcraft.
You&#039;ve probably seen Frontline&#039;s <i>From Jesus to Christ</i>d with segments by John Dominic Crossan. Hearing an ex-priest (who married an ex-nun) and biblical scholar talk about the politics and religious groups of the first century makes it seem more interesting than anything in the accepted NT canon.
Wow. So this is where Trump voters come from.... A good education! God help us.
Much respect to the eloquent post from the intelligent rational thinking person who had the misfortune to be shamelessly indoctrinated by people who have no place being around children; this kind of brainwashing of developing minds is unethical. And it didn't work on you; as soon as you were outside their influence your mind cleaned itself of this shit. But it takes a strong person to free themselves from dogmatic teaching, especially because they were never encouraged to think independently, something I think is one of the most important things for kids to learn.
Unfortunately you seem to be the exception, judging by the hordes of the faithful who love America so much they live in an alternate reality if it reaffirms their love. Real reality must be for the people who don't love America.
Stupid people are everywhere. Now I wonder how many of them were born that way and how many were "educated" into it....
The prosperity Gospel ?
That must be why Reagan was the Great Sympathizer.
Seeing the makers throw the dirty hippies and blahs under the bus, by any despicable means available, must foster some incredible freakin&#039; blind faith in the security of their own future...
You may be confusing &#039;ordinary&#039; people with poor people.
Um...
The difference may be melanin levels.
I&#039;ve been reading several of Professor Bart Ehrman&#039;s lay books (<i>Misquoting Jesus, Lost Christianities, Lost Scripture, Forged</i> on the start of the Jesus Movement (he and Elaine Pagels are considered apostates among true believer scholars. Ehrman, not Jesus). It started as an oral transmission (oh YEAH!) and began being written down in the late first century bce. There&#039;s been some interesting research about the great differences among early Christian groups as well as the link to messianic Judaism I think the majority of evangelicals would be shocked that some of the synoptic gospels are actually compilations written over a century or more by obviously different scribes. But when you already believe in biblical inerrancy scientific research is just witchcraft.
Bootstraps son! Bootstraps!
You&#039;ve probably seen Frontline&#039;s <i>From Jesus to Christ</i>d with segments by John Dominic Crossan. Hearing an ex-priest (who married an ex-nun) and biblical scholar talk about the politics and religious groups of the first century makes it seem more interesting than anything in the accepted NT canon.
And it&#039;s not bce: it&#039;s ce or ad. I enjoyed a pipeful with my boss before I wrote this.
&quot;Tell your troubles to Jesus, mate.&quot;
I was a member of the Y for a while, because the downtown Milwaukee Y had really cheap bowling.
The workers need to control the means of production, after all.
This pretty much sums up the whole shebang. Kudos--
kinda funny that they had to redo the song so that Jean Stapleton could better enunciate that line...
Damn that Hoover.
&quot;The Depression actually had little effect on their lives&quot;
Of course it didn&#039;t. Just look at the awesome documentary The Waltons.
Good night, Johnboy indeed!