via American Power
This is disgraceful, but what is more disgraceful is the disingenuous author who, with a smile, states she is praising Jesus. Even more disgraceful are the 'educators' that find that "the book's educational merit outweighed its shortcomings." Even when they read the obscenities? So vulgar language, drug use and disguised political propaganda is okay for high school students...
Jesus Was a Wine-Guzzling Vagrant and Socialist?
In a passage describing a tent revival meeting she attended, Ehrenreich writes about feeling troubled by its emphasis on Jesus' crucifixion and wishing the preacher would focus more on his teachings of social and economic justice.
"Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say," she wrote.
How far down this slippery slope we have come. It's getting more slippery.
