Posted on 10/02/2012 6:38:59 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
While image isn’t really everything, it certainly appears so when it’s all people are allowed to see. What follows is a list of 10 individuals who have Dr. Jekyll images that obscure a Mr. Hyde reality.
1. Alice Walker
While The Color Purple author and feminist icon masquerades as a champion of women, the woman she should have cared about most in her life, her own daughter, Rebecca, she viewed as a “millstone” around her neck.
As Rebecca reveals, her mother called her birth a “calamity” and would leave her in the care of others or to fend for herself while she was still a child. Her mother drummed into her head that motherhood was slavery, but was happy when she became sexually active at 13 — Alice fancied it “empowering.” And while she was “supportive” when Rebecca had an abortion at age 14, this changed when Rebecca decided to become a mother as an adult. In fact, Rebecca’s rejection of the culture of death led to a spat that ended when, writes Rebecca, “she wrote me a letter saying that our relationship had been inconsequential for years and that she was no longer interested in being my mother. She even signed the letter with her first name, rather than 'Mom'.”
But, hey, I’m sure Alice Walker has read It Takes a Village.
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Remembering a way back to my days in college (early 90's), she's a highly-revered writer/poet in English, Black Studies, Poetry, Literature, and other lib ed departments. I presume that many college (and probably some high school) students are introduced to her through the overly-liberal syllabi. Her style did not do much for me.
I agree. I remember the “Color Purple” movie, it was also tedious and boring.
Speaking of staging scenes in drama class, I once played one of the cops picking up the young immigrant protagonist in that play.
She wasn’t happy with Jack or Bobby, either.
Alice Walker #1? Seriously? I was only aware of her existence through a movie, and only then because I knew it was a book and someone wrote it.
I consider Death of a Salesman to be dreadful dreck, along with Catcher in the Rye.
It's no wonder I usually disliked my English classes, we had to read some awful stuff.
-— It’s no wonder I usually disliked my English classes, we had to read some awful stuff. -—
I associated reading with pain, and vowed to never read a novel again. I lasted 10 years.
I don’t think the numbers are meant as a ranking from worst to bad.
Death of a Salesman. Good...maybe but it never interested me. Miller also wrote the screenplay to the Misfits supposedly for Marilyn. He also wrote a play called After the Fall which was all about Marilyn's mental issues. Basically using her personal "dirty laundry" for his own benefit. Lots of writers do this with their close relationships but in her case it still seems a bit unseemly to me. Miller was Jewish which is something that appealed to Marilyn along with his being so "intellectual." Marilyn even began looking into converting to his religion. I often wondered if that wasn't the impetus for Madonna's (now long forgotten) interest in the Kabbalah. Madonna spent much of her "career" using Marilyn's life as her foot up.
Okay, then I revise myself: Alice Walker in the top ten? Who cares or even knows about her?
I may have to disagree. The point is that insofar as she is known, she’s respected. The reality is that given the state of education (look at the Howard Stern interviews), most people today wouldn’t know anyone on that list except maybe for Moore and Gandhi, and some wouldn’t even know those two.
How did Jesus Christ, Son of God, say we should treat our enemies?
The Bible says there is a time for war as well.
Moreover, any good theologian understands the right to self-defense and the principles of just-war theory.
Gandhi was an idiot.
Moreover, any good theologian understands the right to self-defense and the principles of just-war theory.
The old testament says that. Who in the old testament decided when the time is right for war?
The old testament also contains a whole list of laws controlling how you're supposed to live your life and punishments that are to be meted out if you don't follow the law, such as being put to death for cursing your father or mother or for committing adultery. (Leviticus 20)
Do you believe we should be following these laws?
Most 'good' theologians are selective about what parts of the Bible they choose to obey and those they choose to ignore. For example, they pick out the part about a time for war when talking about self-defense and ignore what Jesus said to do when their enemy smites them on the cheek.
The new testament supersedes the old testament, does it not? What does Romans 12 say about self-defense and how we're supposed to treat our enemies?
Bump
superceding doesn’t mean the OT is now somehow wrong or not relevant in our lives. you want to say the 10 commandments aren’t to be followed or shouldn’t be taught as something to attempt to love by just because we’re under grace?
I have a simple answer. Since I’m a member of Christ’s original church, I understand that Sola Scriptura is a mistaken doctrine. I know where the Bible comes from, and I know where individual interpretation goes to: heresy.
God bless you.
OT law was given to the nation of Israel, not to Christians. (Romans 10:4, Galatians 3:23–25, Ephesians 2:15) Christians are under Christ's laws, i.e.: 'Love thy God with all thy heart, all thy mind and all thy soul' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself'. (Matthew 22:36-40)
This doesn't mean the 10 Commandments are not relevant, but it means that Christians aren't bound by Jewish law. The OT law is a unit. It either all applies or none of it does. (James 2:10)
The purpose of OT law as to prove that no one could live by it, therefore proving our need for a Savior. Our only requirement under Christ's law is that we love God and love our neighbors and if we do those two things we will fulfill all that God requires of us because if we do those two things, we would never commit adultery, covet our neighbors things, kill (murder), etc.
Let’s put this in simple terms. If you don’t believe there’s such thing as a just war, you’re a darn fool and a dangerous person.
Aren’t you supposed to be in Lancaster County driving a buggy right now?
Aren't you supposed to be torturing someone for heresy a la the Spanish Inquisition?
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