Yesterday, we looked at one man's view of World War I and several interpretations. Today, we look at soldier stories from the U.S. Civil War to the Viet-Nam war and beyond. You might notice a weighting in favor of Steve Earle. That is because he wrote some of the best ones.
Two Stories: a Christian Bible and a Jewish Magazine that Make for Bad Religion
"Here I stand: I can do no otherwise: God help me!" -M. Luther image: Wikipedia This post has evolved, over a number of weeks, into a morass of a critique, taking on two venerable and very different foundational literary establishments, the King James Bible and the popular religious press. It might seem quite unwieldy to make critical judgments about these two things in the same place at the same time but read on, perhaps the focus will sharpen. We will tiptoe around theology and scholarship, in hopes that we trample neither but that our own footsteps are rightly placed between those two towering hedges. Since my most recent post, (https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1797607806021886628/3655238780916104218), regarding the mistranslation of a verse in Isaiah which caused a theological storm of invectives, lies, accusations, and a highly un-Christian (at least in the name) level of violence which would seem to be quite excessive until we consider that the question raised
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