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How America’s Biblical ignorance enables the Christian right
Salon/Alternet ^ | 7/10/14

Posted on 07/10/2014 4:08:45 PM PDT by Faith Presses On

The Bible doesn’t mention anything about contraception or abortion, but this hasn’t stopped 89 million American evangelicals acting as if “thou shall not consume a pregnancy pill” were one of the Ten Commandments. For the benefit of my mostly American audience, it’s not. In fact, the first four of the Hebrew God’s Decalogue amount to nothing more than “maniacal throat clearing,” to steal a phrase from the late Christopher Hitchens.

The decision of the five conservative justices to rule in favor of Hobby Lobby, thus granting religious personhood to 90 percent of U.S. corporations, which means that certain for-profit companies may refuse to cover forms of birth control they find morally objectionable, has been debated from every angle except one: the theological perspective.

An overwhelming majority of hyper-religious Americans, and Americans in general, are incapable of debating the theological aspect of their faith. Not only do a staggering majority of Americans have no idea what is or isn’t written in the Bible, they have not a morsel of knowledge as it pertains to just about all aspects of historical context and biblical scholarship.

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


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To: 556x45

True enough...

It is possible to be an unbeliever and still be passive. Many Buddhists are this way. But these are raging God-haters.


21 posted on 07/10/2014 4:58:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Wow! The stupid is thick with this one.


22 posted on 07/10/2014 5:04:02 PM PDT by BykrBayb (World Lung Cancer Day {WLCD} Aug 1 https://facebook.com/events/309580722464921 ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

It isn’t “stupid” it’s “FOOLISHNESS.” Rank presumptuous defiance.


23 posted on 07/10/2014 5:05:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Nearly a century ago, the persecution of the church in Russia started in the press. Gird up your loins, it’s going to get hot.


24 posted on 07/10/2014 5:06:23 PM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: Faith Presses On

It’s always amusing when atheists/satanists tell Christians what their religion is all about.


25 posted on 07/10/2014 5:07:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And while there are some broad thematic overlaps, they never agree.


26 posted on 07/10/2014 5:09:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes, the foolishness is the more important issue, but the stupidity jumped out and danced around the room before I even noticed the foolishness.


27 posted on 07/10/2014 5:10:52 PM PDT by BykrBayb (World Lung Cancer Day {WLCD} Aug 1 https://facebook.com/events/309580722464921 ~ Þ)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In US, atheists know religion better than believers.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0928/In-US-atheists-know-religion-better-than-believers.-Is-that-bad


28 posted on 07/10/2014 5:11:41 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: Faith Presses On

given this logic, i ought to be able to have a nuclear bomb b/c, like abortion, the constitution doesn’t explicitly say anything about it, and the bible doesn’t say i can’t have a nuclear bomb, either.

what stupid morons libtards are. just admit you want it b/c you just want it.


29 posted on 07/10/2014 5:16:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BykrBayb

They think that enough determination can cover up a cockamamie story.


30 posted on 07/10/2014 5:17:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Fuzz

And then nothing in the article backs up that assertion.


31 posted on 07/10/2014 5:18:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Faith Presses On

Leftists cannot possibly understand the Bible. Their minds are clouded and it doesn’t make sense to them. I will not stand for a Biblical lecture from anyone who claims to be democrat/socialist/leftist or any strain of that bilge.


32 posted on 07/10/2014 5:21:58 PM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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the stupidity jumped out and danced around the room before I even noticed the foolishness

I don't even know what you guys are talking about but that may be the funniest thing I've read all year. I practically fell out of my chair laughing.

33 posted on 07/10/2014 5:23:11 PM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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To: Vendome

the biblical literacy of the average pagan is fairly slim to be sure


34 posted on 07/10/2014 5:25:42 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: captmar-vell

Amen and Amen.


35 posted on 07/10/2014 5:26:16 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: Faith Presses On
I could hardly believe they could argue this given how they work to make the Bible unknown.

LOL. How does anyone work to make anything unknown?

36 posted on 07/10/2014 5:29:32 PM PDT by Misterioso
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To: Faith Presses On

Do we really need Salon telling Christians that Christians don’t know the scriptures? This is rather laughable.


37 posted on 07/10/2014 5:34:12 PM PDT by HarleyD ("... letters are weighty, but his .. presence is weak, and his speech of no account.")
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To: Fuzz

I looked that survey over very carefully and it was worth doing. Atheists did better on all religions, as if that was most important. And Mormoms were said to do better than Christians on Christianity, because there happened to be a section on Mormonism (maybe due to Romney). But the growing apathetic group, considered the allies of atheists, brought the unaffiliated scores dramatically. And evangelicals and I believe black Protestants did better on Christianity and-or the Bible. Going by memory with all this, but the news media wanted to trumpet that about “non-believers knowing most.”


38 posted on 07/10/2014 5:36:43 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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To: Faith Presses On

The person who wrote this took some distressing statistics regarding Biblical illiteracy and is using it to disparage a legitimate Constitutional issue.

The more appropriate use of the data regarding Biblical illiteracy is to use it as evidence of our society’s moral and ethical demise.


39 posted on 07/10/2014 5:37:02 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Misterioso

Well, sorry, I was in a hurry, so “to destroy knowledge of God, His Word and salvation through Jesus Christ.”


40 posted on 07/10/2014 5:39:35 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
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