Posted on 04/20/2018 6:38:49 AM PDT by caww
Gentleman’s Quarterly has proposed refashioning contemporary culture by unmooring it from the past, a feat that can be accomplished — in part — by updating lists of required reading.
First among these “overrated books” is the Bible, for which the GQ editors reserve some particularly choice epithets.... It is “repetitive, self-contradictory, sententious, foolish, and even at times ill-intentioned,” or, in a nutshell, “certainly not the finest thing that man has ever produced.”
The core of the GQ proposal is the surgical excision of books that serve to keep traditional values alive.
As simple as it is straightforward, GQ’s plan follows the tried-and-true political strategy of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist mastermind who explained in great detail how to overcome a “cultural hegemony” by replacing it with a new one (counter-hegemony).
The brave new world that the cultural left wishes to establish cannot come about as long as “folklore” (which includes art, literature, history, and other sources of national identity) remains rooted in the ideas and values of the Judeo-Christian West.
GQ’s proposal can only be viewed in these terms. It is not about suggesting more “entertaining” literature. It is about changing the cultural hegemony for the generations to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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I wasn’t including the Apocrypha.
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I’m not either.
I see a lot of attacks on the Bible online, and I’ve decided that since the entire Bible, with the possible exception of Luke-Acts, was written by Jews, I am going to start attacking the attackers as anti-Semites.
The Bible is the basis of two major religions. It has been a source of inspiration and solace for countless people for millenia. It is part of the foundation of western civilization. It has been one of the engines driving our progress as a civilization. It has inspired all kinds of art, music, and literature. It has inspired acts of mercy, charity, and justice. The KJV has had a huge impact on the use of language in the English-speaking world, even though most people are probably ignorant of that. I see frequent allusions and references to biblical themes in older literature. I think even John Mellencamp has read the Bible, because I have heard some biblical references in his songs. Where did Pete Seeger get his lyrics for “Turn, Turn, Turn”? With that track record, how can anyone (honestly) say the Bible is overrated?
The other day I was listening to Family Radio’s Bible-reading program. The guy was reading from Job. Just as a piece of literature, it was like listening to a reading of Shakespeare.
They’re a propaganda leftist rag.....interesting how they all continue to ‘infect’ society with their leftist agenda...but then I consider their target audience who no longer ‘thinks’ but follows the voices of the left.
Today’s world tends to underrate the bible.
It never claims to be “the” word of God, but clearly “contains” the word of God. I have the bible on thumb drive in my dashboard and listen a lot on my 3 hour round trip commute for the last 5 years. It’s dramatically changed my perception of what the bible really is.
I see it as this:
2 Timothy 3:16-17
“All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”
Three things:
1. Scripture means, literally, something written down.
2. The new testament did not exist when the letter was written.
3. The context of 2 Tim 3 amplifies these two verses significantly.
http://biblehub.com/lexicon/2_timothy/3-16.htm
Apocrypha, deuterocanonicals, potato patahto... :)
Unfortunately there are many calling themselves Christians who haven’t read the Bible for themselves......thus they leave themselves open to accept all sorts of false and misleading authors and writings.....which deceptively lead them further from the truth.
No it’s not in the list.....clearly it’s an attack against Christianity.
Obviously they see the Bible as nothing more than a piece of Literature which reveals their condition.
The larger point, that the Bible is really a library, I think anyone familiar with it would agree with regardless of how many "books" they say the library contains.
Yes, their spiritually dead condition. I would only digress slightly, in that many of them probably didn’t even see the Bible as a piece of literature. They have less of an opinion of it than that. 🙃
And just like that, they show how incredibly ignorant they are.
....” The guy was reading from Job. Just as a piece of literature, it was like listening to a reading of Shakespeare”...
Well I sat through a guest speaker at church, who read practically the whole book. Though it was long on verses, as a result a first time visitor gave his life to the Lord... and later in service as a Deacon as his understanding increased. He’s an avid reader of the scriptures to this day.
Later his own father and family he led to the Lord. Stunning how God works!
I learned , again, how it’s the Spirit of God who opens mans understanding to the scripture as he draws men to himself.....his way.
But they don’t realize they give themselves away......we were also once as that and did not see our condition.
I sometimes believe God shows us their condition to show to us that his Salvation message needs to finish the work.
I spoke to one such who was gay, he believed Satan needed to be saved so prayed to God for that. How twisted their thinking is and so off the scale they are fully blinded, woefully willing to be so in order to continue their deviant behavior.
I also believe the ONLY reason these LGBT people can stand without shame and such is because they stand together....alone they could not.
I’m a member at this site: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/the-bible-73-or-66-books.8006170/
And I like this from the thread I linked:
“But of course we are not talking about Catholic books or even books written by NT Christians in the first century - we are talking about Jewish books... we are talking about the Hebrew Bible and whether the content of it which we have in 39 books... should have been 39 or 50. The Jews say 39 and that was the Bible that Christ had - the one that was kept in the Temple in Jerusalem.
“As Josephus points out the Jews had not changed their Bible in over 300 years. IT is not the Bible of Christ’s day to add 11 books to the Hebrew Bible.
“They ‘knew’ about the 11 books - but they did not add them to the scriptures. The canonized set that had been fixed for over 3 centuries.”
At the great white throne, billions will stand together, but will probably feel like they are standing alone. I don’t wish that on anyone, but they will have earned it.
The larger point, that the Bible is really a library, I think anyone familiar with it would agree with regardless of how many “books” they say the library contains.
i.e. the stuff in red is much more critical than III John.
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