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Mama Jean with Holy Bible.
Tate County, Miss. 2007.
Photograph: Margo Cooper
Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta
NYT
Mar. 27, 2015
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/
documenting-the-blues-in-the-mississippi-delta/
Mr. Hill
was raised with the help of his grandmother Theola W. Baylor,
who wore
a pin that showed him in his Air Force uniform.
Photograph: Stephen
Morton
for The New York Times
Atlanta
Police Shooting Victim Tried to Live a Life That Mattered
NYT
MARCH 24, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/us/atlanta-
police-shooting-victim-tried-to-live-a-life-that-mattered.html
After an incendiary speech, Trump grabs a Bible
After arriving at St. John’s, the Episcopal church
that was damaged during a night
of rioting Sunday,
President Trump posed with a bible during a photo
shoot.
Photograph:
Doug Mills
The New York Times
George Floyd Protests: What Our Reporters Saw
Around the Country
NYT
June 2, 2020 2:05 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/
george-floyd-protests-today-06-01
The Holy Bible / The Bible
UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/books/
the-bible
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/
george-floyd-protests-today-06-01
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/
magazine/hebrew-bible-translation.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/18/
586556000/manuscripts-encourages-readers-
to-approach-the-bible-like-a-novel
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/10/
562869479/new-museum-invites-visitors-to-engage-with-the-bible
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/17/
510252058/trump-will-be-sworn-in-with-same-bible-as-lincoln-and-obama
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/15/
474344921/bill-making-the-bible-an-official-state-book-is-vetoed-
by-tennessee-governor
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/middleeast/
new-evidence-onwhen-bible-was-written-ancient-shopping-lists.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/09/
473660026/tennessee-lawmakers-want-to-make-the-bible-the-official-state-book
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/05/
473086571/bible-could-become-an-official-state-symbol-as-tennessee-approves-bill
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/
opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-same-sex-sinners.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/11/
science/camels-had-no-business-in-genesis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/23/
bible-surprise-hit-us-tv
Hebrew Bible USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/
magazine/hebrew-bible-translation.html
The Holy Bible: King James Version
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/08/
829298135/stephen-king-is-sorry-
you-feel-like-youre-stuck-in-a-stephen-king-novel
The Holy Bible: King James Version.
The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus
https://www.bartleby.com/108/02/32.html
a wildly successful free Bible app,
YouVersion,
is changing how, where and when
they read the Bible.
Built by LifeChurch.tv,
one of the nation’s largest
and most technologically advanced
evangelical churches,
YouVersion
is part of what the church calls
its “digital missions.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/
technology/the-faithful-embrace-youversion-a-bible-app.html
The word of God
USA
For millions of readers around the world,
a wildly successful free Bible app,
YouVersion,
is changing how, where and when
they read the Bible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/
technology/the-faithful-embrace-youversion-a-bible-app.html
The Good Book
a holy book
epistle
Gospel
The book of the Gospel
'prosperity gospel'
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/
us/16roberts.html
Holy Word
the Word USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/27/
technology/the-faithful-embrace-youversion-a-bible-app.html
Bible CDs
USA > Bible belt USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/
opinion/southern-atheist.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/nov/06/
tim-minchin-mocking-god-in-texas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/10/
us-muslims-america-alienated-hatred
biblical
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/21/
coronavirus-pandemic-will-cause-famine-of-biblical-proportions
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/16/
ian-brady-myra-hindley-biblical-notion-of-evil-haunt-british-psyche-moors-murders
the Biblical phrase, "Rise and
go"
biblical
curse > leprosy USA
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/09/16/
551057795/leprosy-is-not-quite-yet-a-disease-of-the-past
famine of
biblical proportions UK
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/21/
coronavirus-pandemic-will-cause-famine-of-biblical-proportions
discover tiny fragments of an ancient biblical
scroll
near the Dead Sea
USA
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/
977824243/archeologists-discover-additional-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-in-desert-caves
the Dead Sea Scrolls,
a collection of parchments and papyri
including the world's oldest copies of biblical texts
dated between the third and first centuries B.C.,
were first discovered in the 1940s and 50s.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/16/
977824243/archeologists-discover-additional-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-
in-desert-caves
The King James Version
narrated by Alexander Scourby.
In RealAudio format, with parallel e-text
http://www.audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
Bible > King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/
King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/#booklist
http://www.audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xh4sm
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/15/
king-james-bible-earliest-draft-cambridge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/19/
richard-dawkins-king-james-bible
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/
weekinreview/24mcgrath.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/
books/blessed-are-the-phrasemakers.html
Holy scriptures
psalm
the ten commandments
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/06/
446368169/oklahoma-removes-10-commandments-monument-from-the-state-capitol
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/
the-ten-commandments/309.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/
opinion/12wed1.html
thou
shalt not kill
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/
opinion/editorials/thou-shalt-not-kill.html
the fourth commandment / keeping the Sabbath holy
Sabbath / the Lord's day
Sabbath breaker
shrive
Old Testament
https://www.biblegateway.com/blog/2008/02/
king-james-version-old-testament-audio/
Genesis
King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=KJV
creation
Moses
King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/22/
moses-parting-red-sea-research
Book of Exodus
King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+1&version=KJV
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/22/
moses-parting-red-sea-research
the story of Noah and the flood
King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+7&version=KJV
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/11/
noahs-ark-round-ancient-british-museum-mesopotamian-clay-tablets-flood
early Christian texts
USA
that are
not part of the New Testament / Gnostic Gospels
first and second centuries
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/24/
opinion/nocera-the-gospel-according-to-mary.html
New
Testament USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/
books/greek-new-testament-papyrus-is-discovered-on-ebay.html
New Testament
King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/
King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/#booklist
a letter from Paul
The Book of Revelation
King James (1566-1625) version
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1&version=KJV
Apocalypse
the four horsemen of
Apocalypse >
War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death
a horseman
of the apocalypse USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/
opinion/coronavirus-FDA.html
The Second coming
eschatology
millenarism
prophecy
Fifth monarchists
The Fifth
Monarchists
or Fifth Monarchy Men
were active from 1649 to 1661
during the
Interregnum,
following the English Civil Wars
of the 17th century.
They took
their name
from a prophecy in the Book of Daniel
that four
ancient monarchies
(Assyrian, Persian, Macedonian,
and Roman)
would
precede Christ's return.
They also
referred
to the year 1666
and its
relationship
to the biblical Number of the Beast
indicating
the end of earthly rule
by carnal human beings.
They were
one of a number
of
nonconformist dissenting groups
that emerged around this time.
https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/
Fifth_Monarchists.html
Corpus of news articles
Religions,
Faith > Christianity > Holy Bible
On Basic Religion Test,
Many Doth Not Pass
September 28, 2010
The New York Times
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Americans are by all measures a deeply religious people, but they are also
deeply ignorant about religion.
Researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life phoned
more than 3,400 Americans and asked them 32 questions about the Bible,
Christianity and other world religions, famous religious figures and the
constitutional principles governing religion in public life.
On average, people who took the survey answered half the questions incorrectly,
and many flubbed even questions about their own faith.
Those who scored the highest were atheists and agnostics, as well as two
religious minorities: Jews and Mormons. The results were the same even after the
researchers controlled for factors like age and racial differences.
“Even after all these other factors, including education, are taken into
account, atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons still outperform all the other
religious groups in our survey,” said Greg Smith, a senior researcher at Pew.
That finding might surprise some, but not Dave Silverman, president of American
Atheists, an advocacy group for nonbelievers that was founded by Madalyn Murray
O’Hair.
“I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious
people,” Mr. Silverman said. “Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack
of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.”
Among the topics covered in the survey were: Where was Jesus born? What is
Ramadan? Whose writings inspired the Protestant Reformation? Which Biblical
figure led the exodus from Egypt? What religion is the Dalai Lama? Joseph Smith?
Mother Theresa? In most cases, the format was multiple choice.
The researchers said that the questionnaire was designed to represent a breadth
of knowledge about religion, but was not intended to be regarded as a list of
the most essential facts about the subject. Most of the questions were easy, but
a few were difficult enough to discern which respondents were highly
knowledgeable.
On questions about the Bible and Christianity, the groups that answered the most
right were Mormons and white evangelical Protestants.
On questions about world religions, like Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism,
the groups that did the best were atheists, agnostics and Jews.
One finding that may grab the attention of policy makers is that most Americans
wrongly believe that anything having to do with religion is prohibited in public
schools.
An overwhelming 89 percent of respondents, asked whether public school teachers
are permitted to lead a class in prayer, correctly answered no.
But fewer than one of four knew that a public school teacher is permitted “to
read from the Bible as an example of literature.” And only about one third knew
that a public school teacher is permitted to offer a class comparing the world’s
religions.
The survey’s authors concluded that there was “widespread confusion” about “the
line between teaching and preaching.”
Mr. Smith said the survey appeared to be the first comprehensive effort at
assessing the basic religious knowledge of Americans, so it is impossible to
tell whether they are more or less informed than in the past.
The phone interviews were conducted in English and Spanish in May and June.
There were not enough Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu respondents to say how those
groups ranked.
Clergy members who are concerned that their congregants know little about the
essentials of their own faith will no doubt be appalled by some of these
findings:
¶ Fifty-three percent of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the man
who started the Protestant Reformation.
¶ Forty-five percent of Catholics did not know that their church teaches that
the consecrated bread and wine in holy communion are not merely symbols, but
actually become the body and blood of Christ.
¶ Forty-three percent of Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the foremost
rabbinical authorities and philosophers, was Jewish.
The question about Maimonides was the one that the fewest people answered
correctly. But 51 percent knew that Joseph Smith was Mormon, and 82 percent knew
that Mother Theresa was Roman Catholic.
On Basic Religion Test,
Many Doth Not Pass,
NYT,
28.9.2010,
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28r
eligion.html
10 Commandments Judge
Runs for Ala. Governor Again
June 1, 2009
Filed at 2:34 p.m. ET
The New York Times
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama's Ten Commandments judge is
running for governor again.
Roy Moore's campaign Web site went up Monday morning, inviting supporters to
sign a pledge to help elect Moore governor.
The 62-year-old Moore scheduled a formal ''candidacy announcement'' later in the
day.
Moore ran for governor in 2006, but lost.
When he was a circuit judge, Moore waged a court battle to display a homemade
plaque of the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.
Later, as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, he placed a granite
monument of the Ten Commandments in the lobby of the state judicial building.
His refusal to remove it, in defiance of a federal judge's order, cost him his
office in 2003.
----
On the Net: Judge Moore '10 For Governor:
http://www.moore2010.com
10 Commandments Judge
Runs for Ala. Governor Again,
NYT,
1.6.2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/01/us/
AP-US-Alabama-Governors-Race.html - broken link
Editorial
A Case
of Religious Discrimination
November
12, 2008
The New York Times
Displays of
the Ten Commandments have long been a lightning rod in constitutional law, and
so they are again today. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge
to a city’s decision to allow the Ten Commandments to be placed in a public
park, while refusing to allow a different religion’s display. The court should
rule that that city’s decision violates the First Amendment prohibition on the
establishment of religion.
Pleasant Grove City, Utah, has a city park, known as Pioneer Park, that includes
various unattended displays. These include historical artifacts from the town, a
Sept. 11 memorial, and a Ten Commandments monument that was given to the city by
the Fraternal Order of Eagles, a national civic group.
A religious organization called Summum, which was founded in 1975 and is based
in Salt Lake City, applied to install its own monument in the park. The monument
it proposed would include the group’s Seven Principles of Creation (also called
the Seven Aphorisms), which it believes were inscribed on tablets handed down
from God to Moses on Mount Sinai.
Pleasant Grove City rejected Summum’s application. It told the group that it had
a decades-old practice of only accepting displays that directly related to the
city’s history, or that were donated by groups with longstanding ties to the
community. But this was not a firm policy at the time. It was only later that
the city adopted a written policy enshrining these criteria.
Summum sued, arguing that the rejection of its monument violated its right to
free speech under the First Amendment. The United States Court of Appeals for
the Tenth Circuit in Denver agreed. In allowing monuments in its park, the court
ruled, Pleasant Grove City had no right to discriminate on the basis of the
content of those monuments. The city was free to ban all unattended displays if
it wanted to. But once it decided to allow such displays, the court ruled, it
had no right to permit the Ten Commandments but bar the Seven Principles of
Creation.
The federal appeals court reached the right result, but regrettably, it ducked
the issue at the heart of the case, which turns on the Establishment Clause of
the First Amendment. The real problem is that Pleasant Grove City elevated one
religion, traditional Christianity, over another, Summum. The founders regarded
this sort of religious preference as so odious that they included a specific
provision in the First Amendment prohibiting it. The United States Court of
Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has a bad record on Establishment Clause cases,
which made it easier for all of the parties to treat the case as a simple speech
case.
But as the American Jewish Committee, Americans United for Separation of Church
and State and other groups argue in a friend-of-the-court brief, the Supreme
Court should not make this mistake. It should squarely confront the religious
discrimination underlying Pleasant Grove City’s rejection of Summum’s monument
and make clear that the city violated the Establishment Clause.
There is no shortage of churches, synagogues and private parcels of land where
the Ten Commandments could be displayed without the need to include the credos
of alternative faiths. Public property like Pioneer Park must be open to all
religions on an equal basis — or open to none at all.
A Case of Religious Discrimination,
NYT,
12.11.2008,
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/
opinion/12wed1.html
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