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DonViejo

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Thu Jun 5, 2014, 10:15 AM Jun 2014

Hobby Lobby President Insanely Compares Biblical ‘Exodus’ To KKK-Inspired ‘Birth Of A Nation’

Let’s see…the president of Hobby Lobby, Steve Green, is a conservative Christian fundamentalist (when it’s convenient) multi-millionaire that generously offered to create a lesson plan to teach public school kids about the history of the Bible. What could possibly go wrong?

Exactly what you would expect:

The first independent review by a biblical scholar raises serious concerns about a new curriculum that promoters – particularly Hobby Lobby President Steve Green – hope will combat what they see as ignorance about the Bible among public school students.

“This is a classic example of preaching religious beliefs in the guise of promoting religious literacy,” said Mark Chancey, a professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, who reviewed the partial and preliminary curriculum for the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund. “It’s hard to imagine this curriculum, with its sectarian elements, errors and oddities, was put together by dozens of scholars as claimed.”


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But the most disturbing bit in Green’s lesson plan is the comparison of the incredibly vile and racist film Birth of a Nation to the Bible’s Book of Exodus in which the Hebrews free themselves from slavery:

On a related note, many film buffs will not miss the irony of the curriculum’s blithe suggestion that the Book of Exodus, which tells the story of the ancient Hebrews’ deliverance from slavery, “could be titled The Birth of a Nation (like the American film classic).” D. W. Griffith’s 1915 movie about the Civil War and its aftermath famously portrayed freed slaves as brutal, uncivilized, sexual aggressors. Originally known as The Clansman, it lionized the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan and helped spur the creation of the modern Klan. The movie concludes its approving portrayal of violent Klan suppression of African Americans with a hopeful vision of a peaceful, heavenly future for whites under the watchful care of Jesus. Needless to say, the curriculum’s passing comparison of Exodus to this movie is an unfortunate and inadequate introduction for high schoolers to this particular episode of film history.


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