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Could the Bible be cancel culture's next victim?
Jerusalem Post ^ | March 11, 2021 | David M. Weinberg

Posted on 04/28/2021 11:12:51 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

No one understood the dynamics of ideological persecution and the failure of society better than German pastor Martin Niemoller.

In his famous post-World War II confessional speech, he said (in paraphrase): “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist. Then they came for the socialists, then the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a socialist nor a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Jump 80 years forward, and ask yourself this: After “canceling” one literary, musical, artistic, and theatrical classic after another, will be anybody left to speak for the Bible when the “woke” movement inevitably goes after the canonic text of Jewish (and Christian) civilization?

After all, isn’t there slavery in the Bible, alongside discrimination against women, the handicapped, and non-Jews? Isn’t there intolerance of gender-fluid identities and racism regarding certain nations? The Bible even calls for genocide against the seven Canaanite nations, and Amalek!

So why shouldn’t the small group of “intellectuals,” “progressives,” and radical kings-and-queens who rule today’s “cancel culture” approach the Bible censoriously too? What would better amplify their (illusion of) power than twitter-shaming all Bible-believers, or even burning entire chapters of that “culturally offensive” book?

In their power game, nothing is sacred (except for progressive political correctness itself) and nothing is immune from their “enlightened” rampage.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bible; cancelculture; woke
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To be fair...The central place it used to hold in life and culture has been diminished for centuries. Which is precisely why we are where we're at. 'Cancelling' the Bible (or at least parts of it) began in churches and synagogues. And accelerated post-Industrial Revolution/Darwinism, etc...
1 posted on 04/28/2021 11:12:51 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It is already under attack by the ‘cancel culture’ plus secular humanists (i.e. modern pagans).


2 posted on 04/28/2021 11:15:46 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

On top of being anti-lgbt, the Bible is also against socialism. “If you do not work, you shall not eat.” Can’t have things like that and be a democrat.


3 posted on 04/28/2021 11:16:53 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

No.


4 posted on 04/28/2021 11:17:17 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Bible has been in the crosshairs for eons.


5 posted on 04/28/2021 11:19:47 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

God will not be mocked...


6 posted on 04/28/2021 11:20:40 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Atheist Marxists do not have to read the Bible. No one says they must. What they really yearn to do is delete any vestige of JudeoChristian ethics from anywhere in the culture, and from the earth. These MaxoMarxtists cannot countenance anything less than exclusive religious worship of themselves and their racist, anti human doctrine, by everyone else!

The more this goes on, the more Revelation becomes Reality.


7 posted on 04/28/2021 11:20:41 AM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: Vision

Just threaten tho have a public burning of the Koran. then watch what happens.


8 posted on 04/28/2021 11:20:46 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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To: Vision

They will try to prove you (and God) wrong. They have the money, the power and motivation to outlaw the Bible. We may not see it in our lifetime but at the speed of which things happen, who knows? The globalist elite are very anti-God. Revelations indicates a large population decrease will happen in the last days. We will see interesting times before we pass.


9 posted on 04/28/2021 11:23:34 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Jeffrey Epsteins last words "I am not committing suicide".)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They have already threatened to cancel it in California.


10 posted on 04/28/2021 11:24:43 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It’s already started, but I expect the main attack is rewriting and falsification.


11 posted on 04/28/2021 11:24:49 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: kaehurowing

Book of Eli days are fast approaching


12 posted on 04/28/2021 11:27:16 AM PDT by digger48
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Bible has been on the Cancel Culture’s hit list since before Antiochus IV Epiphanes ordered it destroyed. He failed.
Then the Caesars tried to destroy it.
The moslems tried to supplant it with their ravings of an epileptic pedophile caravan raider. They failed.

During WW II, this poster, we knew the Enemy was the arm holding the bayonet. Today the “Enemy” is the book.

https://archives.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/156/2017/05/Defining_the_Enemy-Defining_the_Enemy-1.jpg


13 posted on 04/28/2021 11:27:33 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

They took the Bible out of schools. Conservatives kept sending their children to those schools. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

The public schools barely teach children to read. What better way to cancel the Bible than through illiteracy? And conservatives say, “but my public school is not like all the others.” Yes, I see, they are all above average.


14 posted on 04/28/2021 11:34:44 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

the left are gonna go after it hard- very hard- very soon-


15 posted on 04/28/2021 11:35:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

With my Bible in my left hand and a 9mm in my right, and my Garand strung over my shoulder - we sally forth like David’s Mighty Men....


16 posted on 04/28/2021 11:35:57 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It depends.

People who expect the Bible to be the central point of reference for morality, legality or public standards of right and wrong are going to scream ‘Cancel Culture’ or the like. But some people consider anything other than a government and society founded explicitly on the Bible to be some sort of atheistic dystopia and sign of the imminent Apocalypse.

It’s one of several sources that people in today’s society use for moral guidance, but that’s it; expecting it to hold a greater place than any other Book in anything other than one’s own life is futile and delusional.


17 posted on 04/28/2021 11:41:53 AM PDT by RedStateRocker ("Never miss a good chance to Shut Up" - Will Rogers)
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To: digger48

What a great and special film!


18 posted on 04/28/2021 11:42:42 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: digger48

Denzel Washington is a wonderful actor.

He’s also a very smart guy.

And a strong Christian.


19 posted on 04/28/2021 11:44:53 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The Bible’s teachings are already illegal in Canada, where people are in prison for espousing all of it.


20 posted on 04/28/2021 11:46:39 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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