Comments on: Props To My Man Samson (or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Bible) http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/ Just a Bee in the Bree Bonnet Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: gillian http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-198 gillian Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:00:32 +0000 http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-198 I know the Samson story, though maybe only because I have this "Picture Bible", uh, graphic novel that my stepmom bought me when I was a kid, and I read it on weekends when I was at my dad's house, and I must've read it a whole bunch of times. I figure this means my idea of what really happened in the Bible is pretty screwed, not to mention edited for children. I know the Samson story, though maybe only because I have this “Picture Bible”, uh, graphic novel that my stepmom bought me when I was a kid, and I read it on weekends when I was at my dad’s house, and I must’ve read it a whole bunch of times.

I figure this means my idea of what really happened in the Bible is pretty screwed, not to mention edited for children.

]]> By: havril http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-197 havril Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:08:48 +0000 http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-197 Obviously, it's time for Hollywood to take another crack at it. Viggo Morensen as Samson. Penolope Cruz as Delilah. Will Farrell providing comic relief as the bumbling barber. Obviously, it’s time for Hollywood to take another crack at it. Viggo Morensen as Samson. Penolope Cruz as Delilah. Will Farrell providing comic relief as the bumbling barber.

]]> By: breebop.com » My darling, the Bible-quoting atheist http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-196 breebop.com » My darling, the Bible-quoting atheist Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:12:14 +0000 http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-196 [...] - willbop: Props to my man Samson, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the Bible [...] [...] - willbop: Props to my man Samson, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned To Love the Bible [...]

]]> By: jocelyn http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-192 jocelyn Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:30:17 +0000 http://willbop.breebop.com/2006/06/28/props-to-my-man-samson-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-bible/#comment-192 Dude, I LOVE this post - even if I do require an encyclopedia of oblique cultural references to decode it. (Crickets, yo.) Get yer woman on that post-rating thing so that I can give you four stars. Or e-props. Or whatever. This, as you will no doubt roll your eyes at, is an observation that Christians have been weeping and gnashing their teeth at ever since the scopes monkey trial made it possible to teach science in schools. "Oh, the disintegration of our society!" they wail. "Oh, but our children don't know what the bible is! Whatever will we do?" But the more cunning among us scratch our whiskers (for we still have our powers), and think, "hmmm... this might make things easier for us. Less of that baggage thing, more of the sort of tabula rasa that you get in post-communist countries." Or not. But there are those among us (possibly just me) who wonder if this might just signal the end of the bloated, privileged, power-hungry Church and the emergence of something a little more humble. A little less obnoxious. A little more "lamb" and a little less "lion." Dude, I LOVE this post - even if I do require an encyclopedia of oblique cultural references to decode it. (Crickets, yo.) Get yer woman on that post-rating thing so that I can give you four stars. Or e-props. Or whatever.

This, as you will no doubt roll your eyes at, is an observation that Christians have been weeping and gnashing their teeth at ever since the scopes monkey trial made it possible to teach science in schools. “Oh, the disintegration of our society!” they wail. “Oh, but our children don’t know what the bible is! Whatever will we do?” But the more cunning among us scratch our whiskers (for we still have our powers), and think, “hmmm… this might make things easier for us. Less of that baggage thing, more of the sort of tabula rasa that you get in post-communist countries.” Or not. But there are those among us (possibly just me) who wonder if this might just signal the end of the bloated, privileged, power-hungry Church and the emergence of something a little more humble. A little less obnoxious. A little more “lamb” and a little less “lion.”

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