Indeed, given all the Bible variants, determining which version will rule over the others seems like it is a question that should be addressed soonest.

Matthew 6 is going to get a workout today, I see.

Hey, Jeffrey! Check out what Matt sez JC said:

1“[But] take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them;a otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.
2When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites* do in the synagogues and in the streets to win the praise of others. Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward.b
3But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right is doing,
4so that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.

I think FDL’s own Peterr should be on representing the Firebaggers! FDL is a worhty faith-based group, in that we have faith in our fellow man….

I wanna know where Cain’s wife came from.

The Sermon on the Mount gets a workout every day. It astounds me how many self-professed SuperChristians either have not read or do not pay attention to what was very possibly Jesus’ standard homily.

Most of the time. Faith in your fellow man is believing they
will always do the best thing possible.

And they always do!

Does Mormon doctrine carry any prohibition against falsifying?

I have some questions about Mary Magdelene myself.

St. Louis?

Aw, man, the stories I could tell ya about the fundies I met while protesting in St Pete all those years. Their lack of knowledge of the Bible, particularly the New Testament, was extraordinary. Blew my mind.

ROFL

Actually, they could marry the two concepts.
If you saw Jesus in your hamburger helper last night … you might be a redneck.

Ever read The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle by Karen King? Great read. Part of the gnostic gospels.

I actually got into it once with a commenter on the AOL boards who, when confronted with the Beatitudes, asked, “Where do you guys get that liberal crap?” He literally had never seen these verses before…and he professed dreams of becoming a Pentecostal minister.

Awww, man, yeah, sounds about right. JHFC on a crutch.

It’s a bit early to get up in arms over this silly show – I bet it will have at best niche popularity. Most of American – even moderately religious people – aren’t going to want to spend their time hanging around in front of the tube answering Bible trivia questions.

And there is no problem whatsoever with niche programming for the very religious.

My fave has always been: you know yer a redneck when yer lawn furniture used to be yer living room furniture

No kidding. Jesus was very much a proponent of equal exchange and not laying up treasures on earth.

Hey, it could turn out to be my favorite show!

Jesus was not a capitalist. Methinks I’m on pretty safe ground there.

As of late, Foxworthy has been palling around with Mitten$ Rmoney,

How do you know if you might not be a redneck?

Not surprising to me, sadly.

Really, at the time, there was no such thing as a capitalist. Market economics, yes; exploitation, you betcha; capitalism as such, nope.

Okay, I’ve gotta hit the showers. Stay safe, have a good weekend, and please don’t reenact scenes from Platoon with Charlie Sheen!

If your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat… you might be a redneck.

It’s good advice not to re-enact Sheen’s more recent escapades, either. You might go to jail for stuff like that.

Money lending is a capitalist activity. Didn’t call it that in those days but…

I can count on one hand the number of Christians I have ever met, if by Christian we mean someone who follows the complete teachings of Christ, especially the big stuff like the Sermon on the mount, loving your enemies, not giving a damn about money, etc. From what I can tell from years of observation, the majority of Christians, especially during church, read only a select group of Bible passages over and over, which leaves them with a very limited knowledge of their holy book. But then again, there is that bit in Matthew where Jesus rejects the essential message of his teachings: “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Or the central message of Ecclesiastes that says eat, drink and be merry because everything else is nothing but vanity and someday we’ll all be just as dead as any other animal on the planet. It’s all very confusing.

If the show gets on the air, I’d love to see questions about slavery (“Such slaves you have, male or female, should come from the nations around you. From them you may buy slaves.” Lev 25:44), what God wants done to witches, or maybe one related to US wars in the Middle East (“And when the Lord your God delivers them into your power for you to defeat, you must exterminate them. You must not make alliance with them or spare them.” Duet 7:2).

If my fourth grade teacher, Sister Benedict, were available, I’d put her up against the best Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher in Tennessee.

Question#1 Who wrote the Bible.

Now what to ask for the second season.

God wrote the god da*mned Bible, you ignoramus.

Only in last-dregs-now-swirling-the-drain America could a guy like Foxworthy become rich. While Bradley Manning gets tortured and faces life and US citizens are killed in ones and twos by million-dollar-drones, untried, overseas.