Today's daily malarky from the AFA:
NEW YORK (April 10, 2014) - A new poll finds a sharp increase in the number of Americans who consider the Bible merely the teachings of men rather than the word of God.
The fourth annual State of the Bible survey was conducted just over two months ago by the Barna Group for the American Bible Society.
It found that while about one in five Americans continue to read the Bible at least four times a week and view it as divinely inspired, an equal percentage doubt the Bible's relevance and authority. That's almost twice the percentage of those who were skeptical of the Bible in 2011.
The survey found the greatest increase in indifference toward the Bible was among Americans between the ages of 18 and 29.
Spokesman Geof Morin says the American Bible Society hopes to reach more of that generation through their cell phones with daily verses and Bible studies.
Society President Roy Peterson says he hopes more Americans will turn to the Bible to "make sense of life" and reverse what many see as the nation's "moral decline."
here's AFA's One News Now cite:
Yutes sceptical of the bible
Hmm, let's see. I wonder how this recipe will taste:
Take your average yute, teen, or young adult. The one who is texting, sexting, and playing games hours a day.
Add bible studies and daily verses in their texts and emails.
Shake vigorously.
Rinse and repeat, until the yute, teen or young adult responds.
My only question is this: Ye Olde Testament, or the new one? (forget about which translation, which version, or whether a particular sect approves of that particular verse or chapter)
One of the nastiest chapters in the bible has to be Deuteronomy. A married woman must carry her bloodied marital bedsheets around with her for life. If she loses them, and if her hubby ever tires of her, he can divorce her simply by claiming that she wasn’t a virgin at the time that they married. If the little lady cannot produce those original bloody linens on demand, she gets stoned to death. Deut. 22:13-21.
I am sure that today's yute will enjoy that image tremendously, between their telex messages, learning how to install MS-DOS on their phone, and trying to find their parents' facebook entries.
Women in general seem to be second rate under the bible. If a "virgin" "allows“ herself to get raped, and if she didn’t scream or fight hard enough, she gets stoned to death. Deut. 22:23-24. Although that seems to be the rule, rather than the exception, especially for southern women of color, I suspect that normal, sane people, would find this rule somewhat objectionable. However, in Ye Olde Testament, raping girls is a blessed act for men of faith. If a male spots a hot babe, especially from a different sect or tribe, he can take her and use her any which way he wants. When he get bored, he can simply toss her back. Deut. 21:11-14.
If you really want to learn more about honest, modern, family values, AFA's instruction manual is not exactly a good place to start. Today’s most serious practitioners rarely follow every word, even when they have the audacity to claim that every word is without error. The idea that using modern technology to pull the wool over the eyes of today's yutes is, well, I cannot wait to see how well that goes over. Perhaps they will be as "cool" as the GOP efforts to be hip and mod, and far out. More likely, they won't even reach that level of incompetence.
How about this one? Bleeding women tend to wreck havoc with men‘s sex lives. Lev. 15:19-24. I can't wait until Pat Robertson gets on his station, and tells a god-fearin', bible-beating viewer that he can't touch his wife if she bleeds. Obviously, she is a filthy subhuman, not worthy of sharing a meal with him, much less a bed.
On so many levels, today's yute and young adults are far more knowledgable and sophisticated than the cretinous bastards who make up the AFA and similar hate groups. Even though most of today's christian bigots claim that gays and lesbians commit moral and mortal sins, the bible is surprisingly free of such prohibitions. In fact, several biblical heroes were known for their love of all mankind. Claving and craving one another seemed to work out for them.