Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
BIBLE SUPPRESSION RECONSIDERED
BIBLE SUPPRESSION RECONSIDERED
Taking the Bible from the public schools may have had less to do with religious freedom, as it did with the promotion of ignorance.
The Bible is a very powerful book. If it is the wrong hands (or in the right hands), it can also be a dangerous book, as proven by many heroes and heroines in history and in life.
While reading the Holy Quran some years ago, I was amazed to see, to discover therein, the many Biblical allusions, stories, and references, even in the Muslim's holiest book!
This is quite natural "deep calls unto deep." Psalms 42:7. So, it is very doubtful that Muslims were offended by the Bible, and if it is not Muslims who were offended, the Christians' greatest living competition, then who or what was offended by the Bible: atheists!
The godless are offended were offended; those who would take Christ out of Christmas; those who would substitute mankind for God.
Then, again, the atheists may have simply been used by more wicked, evil forces of powerful nobility to smoother all others in abject futility.