War

What Does Remembering Violence Require?

Bible and Pop Culture, Bible in the movies, War / By

Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, Inglourious Basterds, was informed in part by taking part in a seder at Philip Roth’s house. The Passover seder is a religious practice of remembrance commanded by none other than God in the Bible to commemorate God’s liberating the Hebrew people from Egypt in order that they could be free to be servants of God. With …

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Biblical Texts Go to War

Bible in politics, War / By

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what’s a picture with words worth? GQ recently published eleven cover pages from ealier Pentagon intelligence briefings. That they juxtapose biblical quotations with Iraq war photos has elicited all sorts of righteous indignation.  Predictably, many people are outraged that Rumsfeld and Bush would blithely endorse equating …

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