Monday, August 16, 2004
America's Taliban Targets South Carolina
When Bob Jones University is the Voice of Moderation, Something's Amiss
Everyday I watch the news coming out of the Middle East and I am thankfully that I don't live in some theorcratic distopia where a group of self-appointed leaders tell me how 'God' wants me to live and what his word should mean to me. But wait! Crazy theorcrats aren't just the product of dessert kingdoms 1/2 a world away, they're right here.
Fox News ran a story about a group that wants to establish a theorcratic kingdom in the bible belt. No constitution, just the Ten Commandments as law. How Margaret Attwood of them. No word on if residents will be able to eat shrimp and shellfish or will have to call the priest if they get mildew in their home (see Leviticus), but I'm sure the council of elders will be considering it.
Kudos to the spokesperson from Bob Jones university who actually seems to understand the issue stating:
Well said Mr. Pait!
A Free (and Christian) South Carolina?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129023,00.html
Everyday I watch the news coming out of the Middle East and I am thankfully that I don't live in some theorcratic distopia where a group of self-appointed leaders tell me how 'God' wants me to live and what his word should mean to me. But wait! Crazy theorcrats aren't just the product of dessert kingdoms 1/2 a world away, they're right here.
Fox News ran a story about a group that wants to establish a theorcratic kingdom in the bible belt. No constitution, just the Ten Commandments as law. How Margaret Attwood of them. No word on if residents will be able to eat shrimp and shellfish or will have to call the priest if they get mildew in their home (see Leviticus), but I'm sure the council of elders will be considering it.
Kudos to the spokesperson from Bob Jones university who actually seems to understand the issue stating:
"A spokesman for Bob Jones University a nondenominational Christian university that "stands without apology for the old-time religion and the absolute authority of the Bible" said the school would not be part of the campaign.
"As Christians, it's not our job to start a new country," Jonathan Pait, a spokesman for the university, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "It's our job to spread the kingdom and the kingdom is not of this world. It's of the heart."
Well said Mr. Pait!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129023,00.html
