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...Bible, Job correctly assumes he is personally targeted. (The reader knows he is the object of a wager between God and Satan.) The Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies...
Evil drops in with that surprising air of nonchalance and swagger that Satan affects at the start of the Book of Job, when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, and the Lord says to Satan, "Whence comest thou," and Satan, with his evasive, insinuating smirk, replies, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down...
Other criticisms have focused on the searing imagery featured in club meetings: kids learn that nonbelievers will burn in everlasting fire and that Satan is real. "This is not just cookies, puppets and Bible stories," says Rob Boston, of Americans United for Separation of Church and State--which filed an amicus-curiae brief against the club. "This is an evangelical hard sell...
...schools must collect permission slips. And they almost always do, says Marshall Pennell, the Fellowship's executive ministries coordinator. But complaints are not unheard of. In 1998 Neil Katzman, a Jewish man from Ventura, Calif., overheard his son Kenny, 5, tell a friend that "magic is the work of Satan." Taken aback, Katzman asked where he had learned that. "At school," said Kenny. It turned out that the caretakers at Kenny's after-school, public day-care program were letting kids attend Good News Club meetings in the elementary building without previously alerting their parents. Kenny had gone...
...fascinating, if you happen to get your moral philosophy from the glossy pages of America’s newsweeklies. If you don’t, though, you might wonder about Newsweek’s insistence that “We want to see Timothy McVeigh as evil incarnate, as Satan, as depravity in human form...Doing so allows us to place him in a category labeled EVIL with a capital E, but also, more importantly, one labeled...