And hoping everyone down there gets out. And not just there, but all along the path of Gustav. You can almost feel the horror to come.
Where else but Texas? Next, In New York, state mandated Qur’an courses and in California, state mandated Queer Bible courses and in Colorado state mandated Tao courses.
Attorney General Greg Abbott decided today that Representative Warren Chisum’s bill (H.B. 1287) requires all Texas public schools to offer instruction on the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The 80th Texas Legislature passed into law Rep. Chisum’s bill that requires all Texas school districts to provide instruction in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament.
It’s just completely improper to legislate bible study. Voluntary? Sure, with properly qualified instructors. Mandatory? Never- even with qualified teachers. You see, it’s only a small step from mandated courses to mandatory student participation.
I don’t know why they would want to do it- but a group of South Africans decided it would be fun to read the Bible through- under water.
About 35 divers continued on Saturday, with their efforts to complete 64 hours of reading the Afrikaans translation of the Bible under water, SABC reported. The Handwritten Bible and Underwater Bible Reading Marathons were some of the activities lined up by the Bible Society of South Africa to mark the 75th anniversary of the Afrikaans Bible in Bloemfontein. The readathon started on Wednesday at the Bible House in Bloemfontein, in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of world records. One of the divers, Eckhard Hesse said they have already set a record, as it is the first time that a bible is read under water.
Yes, pages don’t hold up well in those conditions! Biblio-stunts. So odd.
[Calm down, I know they didn't use a regular Bible. Geesh.]
That famous, inbreeding, God loving supporter of Reform was very interested in a sermon Zwingli preached and so he requested a copy, which Zwingli filled out a bit (with loads of other materials than that which he had spoken) and sent on the 30th of August 1530. The sermon, on Providence, was a great hit both spoken and written and still remains one of Zwingli’s most important contributions to theological literature. And you can get a copy here from Wipf and Stock.
