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[smokedamage]

Join the Christian ExodusTired of the neighbouring sodomites and godless heathens keeping you awake on Saturday night when you just want to get a good nights sleep so you can get to the front pews in church on Sunday morning

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[peridoxical]

In seriousness, my school offers a class called "The Bible as literature" that I think would be really interesting. It examines the bible as just another book, talks about the influence, etc.

[smokedamage]

It's not even that well written in the end. If, you know, a copy of the Hobbit is the only book to survive the coming apocalypse we will all be worshipping a fricking hobbit two thousand years down the track.

The Bible has had some excellent PR people. Usually with very pointy swords.

[sableagle]

Surely we'd be worshipping Gandalf and following the wisdom of the Hobbit.

If the trilogy makes it through, we'll be warned not to fall victim to the folly of the old Steward, and people will have little statues of Perrin on necklaces for courage. There'll be fake photographs of elves, images of Sauron's eye in the flame of some attack, a load of monks tending gardens and reciting the sayings of Sam Gamgee and his Gaffer and some bunch of Irish lunatics fighting for decades over whether the Two Towers were Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul or Sauron's and Saruman's.

From the second edition: The second part is called The Two Towers, since the events recounted in it are dominated by Orthanc, the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress of Minas Morgul that guards the secret entrance to Mordor.

I'm afraid recent DVDs may outlast the books.

[smokedamage]

The DVDs aren't the worst thing ever, so it could be worse. I can't imagine the weirdness in the world if that was our bible...

[sableagle]

You realise this is an attempt to overthrow the separation of church and state faster than their pet president is managing it, don't you?

[smokedamage]

Well, what gives me a glimmer or respect for these waterheads is that they are trying to form a sovereign state, and in their sovereign state they have every right to be a theocracy. Good luck to them.