Georgia to OK Bible-based literature classes

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  • Smellyman2
    Smellyman2 Posts: 689
    beachdweller wrote:
    I have no problem with this as long as it's taught as "Fiction"

    amen
  • catefrances
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    cutback wrote:
    Where is the Qur'an study class? Or Torah?


    have you ever read the quran? i don't mean any disrespect to muslims, but it's a boring book.
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  • deadnothingbetter
    deadnothingbetter Posts: 2,202
    beachdweller wrote:
    I have no problem with this as long as it's taught as "Fiction"
    well, alright... then this sounds good for both parties... just becareful you don't start believing it, cause it'll creep up on you. it's true.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    The Bible is Literature. I don't think anybody can disagree with that.
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  • harmless_little_f***
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    The Bible is perhaps the most historically important blueprint for storytelling we have today in any culture. Every good modern narrative takes its cues from the Bible.
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  • gue_barium
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    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    The Bible is perhaps the most historically important blueprint for storytelling we have today in any culture. Every good modern narrative takes its cues from the Bible.

    I dunno about 'most historically important blueprint'. It is literature, journalism. It borrows heavily on the literature/storytelling before it.
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  • harmless_little_f***
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    gue_barium wrote:
    I dunno about 'most historically important blueprint'. It is literature, journalism. It borrows heavily on the literature/storytelling before it.

    I said 'perhaps the most...' Agreed, there were landmarks before it, but I was referring to modern literature. And it isn't all 'journalism', no.
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  • deadnothingbetter
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    gue_barium wrote:
    It borrows heavily on the literature/storytelling before it.
    this is only in theory
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I said 'perhaps the most...' Agreed, there were landmarks before it, but I was referring to modern literature. And it isn't all 'journalism', no.
    you did say 'perhaps'. no, it isn't all journalism. i had no problem with your post. modern literature is our showcase of literature. It is an Art.
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  • gue_barium
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    deadnothingbetter wrote:
    this is only in theory

    Not really. You could Google 'pre-christian literature'. I haven't googled it myself, but I bet you could find what I'm talking about.
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  • harmless_little_f***
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    gue_barium wrote:
    Not really. You could Google 'pre-christian literature'. I haven't googled it myself, but I bet you could find what I'm talking about.

    I googled it, and no literature came up which definitely predates the entire Bible.

    It might be helpful to distinguish between 'pre-Christian' and 'pre-Organised Christian'. Plenty of literature is available from before the Bible was canonised and the Jewish sect or movement became an official 'religion'. But taking all the Bible's material as a whole (Torah included), you'd be hard pressed to find anything written before it which has had anything like its impact on literature.
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  • OutOfBreath
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    That impact was of course also a result of the bible for a long time pretty much being the only book that was around, and the book referred to with authority to decide various matters by the powerful catholic church. Not because of it's literary qualities first and foremost.

    But it is literature, and good literature too at times. Although not entirely my cup of tea.

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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I googled it, and no literature came up which definitely predates the entire Bible.

    It might be helpful to distinguish between 'pre-Christian' and 'pre-Organised Christian'. Plenty of literature is available from before the Bible was canonised and the Jewish sect or movement became an official 'religion'. But taking all the Bible's material as a whole (Torah included), you'd be hard pressed to find anything written before it which has had anything like its impact on literature.

    You may be right. My instincts are telling me you're off on this one. Paper with words on it was at a premium 2000 years ago. As it is now.
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  • Trau
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    cutback wrote:
    An elective, I assume. Which is fine. BTW, was this a public or private school?

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  • deadnothingbetter
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    gue_barium wrote:
    Not really. You could Google 'pre-christian literature'. I haven't googled it myself, but I bet you could find what I'm talking about.
    i couldn't find it
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