Not The Onion.
Looks like somebody actually read it, for a change.
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Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective. The U.S. spends more on medical services than any other country, but we get less for it. Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare. We will critically examine the economics, politics and sociology of health and illness in the U.S. and the world.
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'bout time they get that pornographic trash off the shelves. Just because it's a bestseller don't mean it's any good -- for kids or anybody!
Think that's OK. Plenty of churches and then there's the public library.
And if that's what it takes to keep the porn out of the school library, I'm Ok with that.
Making the equivalency argument of the Bible just being another book and should not be available is ludicrous on it's face. Like it or not, it is the foundation of Western Civilization.
Say it ain't so
Of course, if you don't like Western Civilization, and there are many political groups that don't, then it all makes sense.
When asked what he thought of Western civilization, Gandhi responded that he thought it would be a good idea :-)
Perhaps Western "civilization" is so screwed up PRECISELY because the Bible is its basis!
I.B.
If you've been following this blog you'll realize that the Old Testament is pretty problematical as a foundation for anything, and it was also limited to pretty small population for a long time.
Wikipedia tells me that the New Testament canon was first agreed upon at the Council of Hippo in 393 AD. By that time the Iliad had been a foundational text for a millennium; a half dozen civilizations in the Levant had contributed important bits; the Greeks had created the bases for half of today's college curricula; the Etruscans taught the Romans about love and marriage; and the Romans made engineering a discipline, as well as creating a form of government that we call our own.
I'd say the Bible appeared on an already well founded civilization, and the folks who best express its core contributions today are seldom the ones who tout its value the loudest.
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