Monday, November 11, 2019

Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible - Re-Blog

Shakespeare and the Geneva Bible
ARTICLE BY LELAND RYKEN  JULY 2009

Shakespeare's indebtedness to the Bible is a subject of neglect in mainstream Shakespeare scholarship.  This is surprising, inasmuch as the relevant data has been compiled by a coterie of Shakespeare scholars, most notably Naseeb Shaheen in his book Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays. [1]  The story of Shakespeare and the Bible is partly the story of Protestant English Bible translation in the sixteenth century.  Shakespeare was the beneficiary of a movement in which English Reformers poured their energies into translating the Bible.  In fact, English Bible translation in the sixteenth century galvanized a society in a manner that invites comparison with the building of cathedrals in the Catholic Middle Ages.  The Protestant Reformation also created an edifice--an edifice of the Word.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Registration: The Nazi Paradigm - Re-Blog

Registration: The Nazi Paradigm
By Stephen P. Halbrook, Ph.D., J.D.

It would be instructive at this time to recall why the American citizenry and Congress have historically opposed the registration of firearms. The reason is plain. Registration makes it easy for a tyrannical government to confiscate firearms and to make prey of its subjects. Denying this historical fact is no more justified than denying that the Holocaust occurred or that the Nazis murdered millions of unarmed people.

I am writing a book on Nazi policies and practices which sought to repress civilian gun ownership and to eradicate gun owners in Germany and in occupied Europe. The following sampling of my findings should give pause to the suggestion that draconian punishment of citizens for keeping firearms necessarily is a social good.