Heads Up: Defying All Evidence to the Contrary, Mississippi Does Have a Book
Republican State Representative Tom Miles says that since Mississippi has a state flower, a state motto, and a state bird, it should have a state book.
Needless to say, Tom Miles believes that book should be the Bible.
I can buy a ticket for that train just so long Mississippi also has a state tool. And that state tool should be Tom Miles. Amen.
Here’s Tom with a friend at the state capitol. Tom swears he’s a distant cousin of Elvis. Hell, son, everybody in Mississippi is a distant cousin of somedamnbody, most probably each other.
Thanks to AlanInAustin for the heads up.
How come all those Holier Than Jeebus people never state which Bible they want to make us obey?
1I’d like to nominate “The Help”, by Kathryn Stockett or John Grisham’s “A Time to Kill” as the state book of Mississippi.
2The state movie should be Mississippi Burning.
Does Tom Miles realize most of the action in the Bible takes place in the middle East? What about the Levitican anti-shellfish stance? Won’t the Mississippi oyster-men and shrimpers have something to say about that?
Now starting with Genesis, let’s count the number of white Christians in the Good Book. Anyone else have their total yet?
3I’d be happy to send him a list of verses that I bet he wouldn’t want children to read… or anybody else, for that matter. Way too much violence and weird sex in that book, and enough contradictions to make your head spin.
4Every porta-potty should be so equipped.
5Our culture’s descent into tribalism is truly frightening.
@Rick: Kind of hard for there to be any Christians mentioned in Genesis, or any part of the Old Testament. Reminds me all those Christmas homages in the comic strip BC, where they didn’t quite understand what the initials B.C. stood for.
Of course, being as how all the folks in Northern Europe were worshipping Odin and his homies at that time, pretty much everyone mentioned in the Bible were probably non-white.
6Sigh. There are other books at the store, you know.
7BTW – which one are we talking about – surely he means the old testament, or was it the Koran, or perhaps the Vedas or the other multitude of holy scriptures that people of other faiths consider “the bible”.
8RepubAnon, I saw an interview with Johnny Hart, who draws the BC strip. He said that his late mother hadn’t believed in his god in exactly the way that he did, so he wouldn’t see her in heaven. When asked how he would feel about that, he considered and replied that since not seeing his mother in heaven would make him feel bad, he believed that his god would make him forget about her. I concluded that I was very happy not to believe in Hart’s god in exactly the way that he does.
9Mississippi should have a state fool and that state fool should be Republican state representative Tom Miles.
10Whether any Biblical characters can be considered “white” depends on what you call white. If you limit it to Northern Europeans…OK. But the Middle East had, as near as we can tell, a range of skin tones some of which were light. Blond and red hair was not unknown. (Mind: this does not mean I think representations of Jesus as an anemic-looking dude with blue eyes and wispy gold curls are anywhere close to right. I’m not promoting “whitewashing” the Old Testament. OTOH, I don’t consider Italians, Spanish, Greeks, or Persians back in the days of Darius and Cyrus as “people of color” because they often had dark hair and eyes and tanned well. They aren’t as pink as Northern Europeans, but…they don’t consider themselves people of color.
11Folks, this is all just one big false flag job aimed at getting the Bible into public schools. (“Hey, we can have it here — it’s the state book!”)
In any event, there won’t be much fuss about this unless or until someone actually starts insisting people follow the teachings in it. After all, who who in the Republican parts wants to feed the hungry, tend the sick, shelter the homeless, etc? Ayn Rand would not be pleased.
12@Rhea: I guess Johnny Hart forgot about the Bible’s Commandment “Honor thy father and thy mother.” Great kidder, that God person.
What this really proves is that Johnny Hart, like so many Kristians*, lacks a heart, or a brain, or courage…
*(fake Christians)
13I was surprised to learn that British librarians in 2006 voted “To Kill A Mockingbird” as the book that most people should read, ahead of the Bible. Although it was set in a fictional Alabama town, the sentiments have a universal application.
14Tom Hart, even with his version of the Bible, doesn’t come close to an Atticus Finch.
And I second Monty’s motion.
I agree with your definition Elizabeth. I should have been more specific and said, count white people as I believe Tom Miles would count white people. My assumption is it’s a fairly narrow definition as I find is often the case among white Christians in the south. Lily white.
15None of us is white, not really. White is the color of that outfit (what is it, aNyway?) with the flaming red and yellow design on the front. We’re all different shades of brown.
16@10-to designate a state fool without a ceremonial competition of some kind would be unfair to all the other fools in my home state..their number is legion…every MS idiot who votes for Republicans who wouldn’t spit on them if they were on fire.
17I’m sort of orange-pink.
18Of course Mississippi has a book. That doesn’t mean anyone’s actually read it.
19We are flying to Disney World over Spring Break because I don’t want to drive through deep East Texas, Louisiana, MISSISSIPPI, Ala-damn-bama and the panhandle of Florida.
20As Lynn was saying. Can anybody in that state? actually read? Wait,I get it. They want the bible to be the state book because someone on Sunday will be willing to read and ‘splain it to them.
21Montag, yup. There is damn near a limitless supply of different versions of the bible. For damn near forever, Catholics were allowed to read only one version. Same for Protestants with the King James. And it goes on and on. Some of these bibles actually had better translations from the ancient languages while others sure enough did not. But shucks, Montag, why would a nitwit like Tom Miles even care? Its my bet that he is secretly functionally illiterate anyway.
22I don’t understand why ‘generic white people’ have an issue as we are now termed ‘non-hispanic white’ whenever the news media is looking for someone for whatever reason….used to be a term only used in the SW like New Mexico and Arizona, but hey, we are all now ‘non-hispanic whites’ and that blows the minds of the Generic EvangeliBaggers.
23I loved this quote: “Tom swears he’s a distant cousin of Elvis. Hell, son, everybody in Mississippi is a distant cousin of somedamnbody, most probably each other.”
24Talk about books reminds me of the joke about the George W. Bush library. A flood destroyed both books. W was upset because he hadn’t finished coloring the second one.
25Miles has big ambitions in the state house, here’s what his Wiki page consists off:
“Tom Miles is a Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, representing the 75th district. Miles plans to introduce a truth-in-labeling law requiring origin labels for chicken”
26I’m gonna have to go with ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ by Mr. Faulkner.
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