Publisher's Clearinghouse is selling a travel alarm that electronically displays a daily bible verse. I gotta admit that's innovative, if not exactly compelling.
Scripture: June 2008 Archives
My friend Mike H. forwarded me the description of a MySpace group that really takes the cake: Christians United Against the Bible. "Christians United is a group of people who love Christ, but don't like all that extra hooey and stuff that is tacked on to him. Jesus, like Muhammed and Malcom X, has had their lives misrepresente[d] ...." Unfortunately the rest of the description is apparently only available to those who join, but that's enough to get you scratching your head. I would ask the question, how do you know then anything about Jesus and what he taught if you don't rely on the Bible and the "extra hooey and stuff that is tacked on to him", but liberal Christians do seem to do just fine without putting much stock in the bible — although even they> maintain some modicum of respect for the bible. Even if they distort it and water it down, few would say that they are actually against the Bible.
Of course for all we know this could be a troll (not sure if that's the right term) — a group someone started not with any serious intention but to see how many people would join. Hard to tell if it's serious, and also hard to tell how many members it really has that seriously agree with its premise.
