A bible in every Texas classroom

I believe it is negligence of the highest order for an adult other than a parent to expose children as young as 14 to a book that contains incest, murder, genocide, rape, infantcide, torture, and adultery. Why do you think that type of thing is acceptable?
If we exclude books that contain these things then almost all of Shakespeare is out! Our kids of 14 and under will be boring little sissies. (And 14 is a little old to just begin to be exposed to murder, rape, genocide, etc. Don't these kids watch the nightly news?)
 
Yes, exactly. I suspect that I could teach a full-semester secular class on the literary impact of the Gospel of Matthew alone, and between several rounds of "spot the Christ allegory" and "spot the different types and elements of the Christ figure" (Is Dirty Harry a Christ figure? What the hell happened to "love thine enemies"?) and "what has this parable turned into in the modern world" (Oh, that's why my insurance company is called "Good Samaritan") I'd have a full schedule. And no one would have realistic grounds for complaints.

Job is another good one. And Genesis -- oh, we can do creation myths and questions of reification for months.

Frankly, from a literary point of view, there's almost nothing in Isaiah. I't's not even good prophesy. Of course, from a theological point of view, it's critical.

And that's the difference. The material per se is not objectionable, but it's all in what (and how) you choose to treat.

Actually, there's just been a release of a Danish book that sees Dirty Harry as a sort of Christ figure. It then goes on to relate a lot of the Christian symbolisms to other works, movies, tv-series, art, books and the like.
I would provide a link, but the text will probably be in Danish, but if you
really want, I'll try digging it up for you ;)
 
The trick in literature is not to find a character who is a christ figure, but one who isn't. ;)
 

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