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To: goldworldnet who wrote (342355)	1/12/2003 9:38:14 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Another antireligious bigot...

To: goldworldnet who wrote (342355)	1/12/2003 9:45:57 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

And this is high school? That's very strange. So much of our literary criticism is Biblical in nature. I think you should complain. Obviously the man has a right to be an existentialist and mention it. But he doesn't have the right (imo) to tell students not to use Biblical themes- unless, of course, those themes are not appropriate for the assignment. I can't think of any high school core literature that doesn't have some religious elements, and of course much of the literature was intentionally written with religious symbolism.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (342355)	1/12/2003 9:46:53 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

That teacher is either a dope or is blinded by bigotry. The King James version of the Old Testament is some of the most beautiful literature in the English language. "consider the fowl of the air" reads a lot better than "look at the birds" like so many modern translations have it. It makes you think of some guy with a Brooklyn accent... Or how about the changing of "my cup runneth over" to "my cup is spilling"....? Any English teacher should recognize the great literature that is in the King James Bible.