Newspaper, 'Tennessean' Might Distribute Bibles

[Rose Siding]

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Nashville is reportedly among the cities on the International Bible Society's wish list for such a distribution. Last weekend, the society paid for New Testaments to be included in plastic bags received by all Sunday home subscribers to The Gazette of Colorado Springs.

A Tennessean executive told E&P yesterday that the Nashville paper would not distribute the New Testaments if the IBS approached it -- noting that doing so would fall outside Tennessean guidelines of material needing to be "secular and nonpolitical." (See "'The Tennessean' Says It Won't Distribute Bibles if Asked.") But it turns out the executive was referring to Tennessean guidelines for sponsorships rather than advertising. The IBS request for paid distribution of New Testaments, if made to The Tennessean, would be decided under the paper's advertising guidelines.
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Gazette readers had mixed reactions to the distribution of more than 90,000 New Testaments with the Colorado Springs paper (E&P, Dec. 20). Some subscribers were happy to get the Bibles while others -- including members of the local Temple Shalom -- were not pleased.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. do you get the feeling that some people

want to shove fundamentalist Christianity down everyone's throat? Don't they realize the way to attract people to their faith is to LIVE the teachings? I think this guy from Palestine once said, "Let your light so shine before all men that all may see your good works, and glorify your Father in heaven."

[ktowntennesseedem]

5. That's what he said alright, (except he said it in Aramaic, of course)

Unfortunately, most people see nothing wrong with taking that light and shining in people's faces; gotta blind them sinners!

Too bad they can't shine their light so as to illuminate the path and help others see and glorify the source of that light.

[xultar]

2. This SHIT HAS GONE TO EFFIN FAR! n/t

[BlueJazz]

3. Can you imagine the Letters to the editor, Press and protests...

..that would happen if the paper included the Talmud or the Koran in
their deliveries.

EVERY right-wing talk-show would be busting a gut the next day....

[renaissanceguy]

4. I once encountered wingnuts

who were preaching to people inside the mall. Of course, they approached me, and I had a few things to say to them. Then, I got them evicted for preaching on private property (against the mall's rules).

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[GeorgeBushytail]

6. I steal gideon bibles from hotel rooms

Don't want hate literature falling into kids' hands.