No Bible bending here!

The Texas board of education is reviewing is science guidlines this week and they are not, I repeat, they are not considering teaching the biblical creation story alongside evolution. Rather, if changes are adopted, they will highlight "the strengths and weaknesses of Darwinism."

In fact, if there is any religion bending going on here, its Darwinism, according to Christian Broadcast News.

they [scientists?] say Darwin helped open up the whole new reality for us and help us understanding our place in the impersonal universe. This is about religion for them, it's their religion, it's a religion really of materialism.

Whose calling who religious now?
[When did Christians begin to use "religion" as a put-down?]

The Bible loophole

Link: http://miscellanea.wellingtongrey.net

The Year One

More biblical entertainment headed your way:

Micheal Cera and Jack Black star as Zed and Oh, two wandering men stumbling through the early chapters of Genesis, encountering Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham and Isaac as they go along.

Black and Cera told MTV:

"It's not prehistoric, it's just pre-Christ. It's like an old, biblical tale. Cane and Abel type of stuff. Just two dudes wandering through early civilization," Black explained. "It's kind of like 'The Meaning of Life' or 'Life of Brian' — a funny look at biblical tales."

"A lot of the humor comes from that — the fact that it's an adventure," Cera added. "We're walking across these mountains, and I think it's gonna look really cool. Hopefully it'll be kind of epic."

Bible empathy

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"I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do." - Romans 7:15

Britney Spears under orders to read the Bible every day

It's all part of her earthly father's plan to keep her on the straight and narrow path and the Mirror thought we should know.

David and Saul coming to a small screen near you

Tomorrow night at 8/7 central NBC will premier the new drama "Kings." According to the website:

"Kings" is a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of David and Goliath. This series is an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances -- and a young hero who rises to power in a modern-day kingdom.

But judging from the trailer, it looks like the show focuses on David and Saul's relationship rather than David's defeat of Goliath, but that story is probably less familiar to general audiences.

"I don't think you can get equality out of the Bible."

Today in Salon, Kathryn Joyce shares the story of Vykie Garrison, a former Quiverfull devotee, who left the movement after suffering abuse and exhaustion.

For Garrison, taking the Bible seriously is synonymous with the punishing claims of the Quiverfull movement. But having lost her faith in the Bible-proofed patriarchy principles she was taught, Garrison is unable to accept any of it anymore. "I don't think you can get equality out of the Bible. You can't get away from hierarchy, strictly defined roles for gender, authoritarianism, submission, dominating." Many believers might take issue with that, but to devout believers of Quiverfull, patriarchy is simply "the logical conclusion of what Scripture teaches," Garrison says.