What think ye about this?
I, for one, find it kind of disgusting. Actually, what I find more disgusting is that there is apparently enough of a market for such a thing that the people at Thomas Nelson felt it would be a good business decision to publish it.
One of our favorite pot-stirrers, Greg Boyd, appears to agree.
I, for one, find it kind of disgusting. Actually, what I find more disgusting is that there is apparently enough of a market for such a thing that the people at Thomas Nelson felt it would be a good business decision to publish it.
One of our favorite pot-stirrers, Greg Boyd, appears to agree.
posted by Matt | 12:53 PM
2 Comments:
(1) Greg Boyd is perhaps one of the more revolting internet personalities, and reading his liberal weenie perspective annoys me.
(2) But with that said, some of his points seemed valid. Others are worthy of a rebuttal. I don't care to re-read it and provide examples. His "wall between church and state" is one that comes to mind...
(3) This modified Bible is a failure. It ought have been a separate commentary.
(4) It kind of seems to be aimed at the skin-head market, except for all the references to Frederick Douglas.
(5) I actually think that, in concept, this idea has some merit. Provided that it's a separate Biblical commentary. And here's why: the liberal left has been trying to de-God our country for decades. They've even tried to re-write history by making our founding fathers God-less deists. Yet, if you look at the founding documents, some of what's written is almost word-for-word scriptural. (Would a deist know their scripture enough to plagiarize it like that? I doubt it.) Second, there are quite a few miracle-esque moments in our history--particularly in the American revolution. We never learned these in school...but suffice it to say that our victory (or stale-mate) w/ Britain cannot be directly assessed to GWs military tactics or leadership.
There's a whole lotta God and Christianity that founded our country and that is a part of our history. I wouldn't mind seeing a commentary that tries to put our history in a responsible Christian perspective. But alas, this attempt seems to fail miserably.
Right there with you, Matt.
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