Bible Thumping “Idiot DJ”
Posted by StormWarning on 27 Apr 2008 at 11:24 am | Tagged as: Commentary, Opinions, Religion, Social Issues
Last week a New Orleans judge ruled in favor of the ACLU in a suit against the Gideon Company (you see their Bibles - New Testament - in many hotel rooms). Gideon, it seems, was in a school giving away free Bibles. The suit was brought on behalf of “Jane Roe,” a little girl whose family didn’t believe in G-d. This post is not about the suit per se, but about an idiot local “dj” (Joe “Pags”) who singlehandedly proved that the “difference between genius and stupidity is the genius has its limits.”
What’s the problem? Once again, this one-side seeing imported pseudo talk show host managed to mangle the entire situation. How? His position was that there was nothing wrong with the Gideon Company giving away free Bibles, and that the position of the child and the parent (atheists) was wrong since no one was going to make fun of the girl for not taking the Bible (”out of fear of retaliation by schoolmates and neighbors“). What this “stand-in” for a conservo-talk show dunce missed was that if my children (or perhaps someday, grandchildren) were placed in a position of accepting a copy of the New Testament, they too, would refuse, and might, depending on their school district or hometown, also be open to ridicule. Why? Because it wasn’t the Old Testament.
Thus, by allowing the Gideon Company to distribute free Bibles, albeit, acceptance of the Bible being at the choice and discretion of the student(s), it could have been seen as encroaching on my children’s (or any other Jewish child’s) rights by opening them up to criticism, ridicule, or worse (in these days of You Tube motivated beatings). Afterall, it has nothing to do with being an atheist.
Missed the point again Joe! This is not like the Pledge of Allegiance thing a few years ago (where an atheist father objected to his daughter having to recite the Pledge). Simply and frankly, if you keep religious activities out of the public schools, there won’t be any issue with offending anyone who might be of a different “persuasion.”
I know that I’m open to some level of criticism, especially by some of my more believing Christian friends and readers, but nonetheless, this is my opinion.
ACLU, Joe pags, Loranger Middle School
I see your point. Giving Bibles away in school is touchy, but if they were Old and New Testaments, then your children or grandchildren should not have a problem with it. My problem is that if we give away Bibles, Old or New Testaments, then the schools will be giving away Korans, Pearl of Great Price, and who knows what else. I think this is a slippery slope.
Of course, the case in question relates to the Gideon Bible company (as far as I know, they only deal in New Testament versions)…in this case, no choice (of version) was given. But, yes, we agree on this (actually I was a bit concerned that you might not). However, the point of this post is the local DJ. Almost everytime I listen to this fool, on any issue of great importance, he is wrong. And worse, people listen to him. Influence is assumed by position.