“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches… Every minority feels it has the right to censor what it dislikes.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (afterword, 1979)
Boycotts, book bans, cancel culture and deepening socio-political divides — what can our biblical history teach us about how we got here, what can help us handle differences, and why 2,600 year old culture wars matter to our future?
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🚩 Some truths are suppressed when books get banned or burned. Some truths are hidden when books get written. Sometimes the truth triumphs despite attempts to silence it. Sometimes it does not.
As we enter the mid-way point of our year-long exploration of the oldest Jewish schism and how we got to be so divided now - there are critical narratives about who gets to tell our stories, which narratives count, and what alternative histories were banished or banned - and why.
The first book burning in the bible sets the tone for the eventual suppression of full truth by Jerusalem’s scribes - and the dominion of the southern narrative over the northern.
It’s the shocking story of Jeremiah the Prophet and how his scroll was tossed into the flames by the fearful King of Judah.
Throughout history, tyrants and fear-fueled societies kept and keep using various forms of censorship to dispel dissent and silence voices that threaten power paradigms. But truth? still stronger. Join me this Sunday to learn about Jeremiah’s scroll, Josiah’s book, and what the Judah-Israel division means to our modern day narratives, struggles, hurts and hopes. ``
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