>> the bible. >> the bible museum looks at three different angle angles of the influence of the bible what does the story talk about in the history of this book as it spreads around the world through translation anddwhat is finallye influence and the ripple effectr as it is translated to go into an herent cultures and certainlc in westernisto culture the storf american history is full of many people interacting with the bible and the difference that im made within thoseericanture, cua certainly roosevelt is looking over the society and differentrh dynamics but also using the bible to branch out across the whole globe with different whole globe with different >>host: one ripple effect is its own literature that is what we want to talk about today how ist the bible used in western literature? >> it has become so common in fm ordinary discourse we are with iry discourse we are familiar with its themes andow, concepts or ideas and becomes characters, expressions.sort so this becomes a pretty familiar repository that riders can draw upon for different reasons as well tee7 let's look at som

museum of the bible through moody radio and american family radio, but didn't know that it was -- this was the first day of opening. speaking of that, you hear all too often word of god, word of god from protestant leaders and quote, holy mother church, unquote from catholic leaders. i'm sick and tired of these leaders not telling you, preachers not telling you how to think but what to think and i want to prove that a christian can take the bible seriously but think for themselves or herself, i'm so glad you answered a question about the apocrypha, so what -- which are the books that the old testament scribes did not include, i know the book of ina is one, they decided not to include and which -- >> let's get answer to that, michael in alabama, thank you. >> yeah, there are additional books, the first caller mentioned first and second, there's a collection of them and they actually range. different books between eastern christian orthodox volumes as well. the answer is not extremely simple but there are

does it go back to that time where you encounter the bible? does it go back out early is a turning point in the book lacks. >> guest: i think it was the biggest moment of my life that changed my life. when i started reading the bible it changed my whole perspective of the world. i would say also god. the disability that i have changed my life. if i didn't have disability it wouldn't be speaking english or wouldn't be doing interfaith at all. >> host: talk more about that. how was it that having your disability changed her outlook on the world compared to the people around you? >> guest: i was jealous of other kids. first of all they could ride a bicycle. i couldn't do that because of my disability and i was very jealous of them but my pastor told me i shouldn't beat jealous and i should have a talent and that's why he learned english. inside i wanted to be different. i can do things that you can't do. i was always searching for why god gave me a disability. why didn't he choose someone else's? that's when i discovered it was my disability. >> h

i've been teaching the bible from the hebrew my whole life and. non jews and jews equally have taken the courses and thousands bought my tapes i have something i know how to make it relevant i just admitted that that's the reason that i'm doing this the bible was america's central book for most of its history today it's ignored i would like to re re center it in american life it's the greatest book ever written but if you just sit down and read it you will know why and i'm i try to explain i'll give you want to example it says honor your father and mother the severity profound thing we're told to love god we're told to love the stranger and we're told to love our neighbor. but we're never told to love our parents because the bible is very sophisticated and understand some children a lot of children just can't love their parents villages kids not duchesse still interest normal know even in normal homes but whether you like your parent or not you have to honor them it's like i stood up when jimmy carter entered my

we shall not discuss the new deliverer of the bible that's right dennis prager following these words like you. are from russia and i see. you know world big partisan lot and conspiracies it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. aeroflot russian airlines. crazy conspiracy they're there they're all were there. the boss forget about the back of the buses run amok with the fuss because we want. wonder bread and fake news. that's. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. just a simple. many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sites the drifter used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities. plan. to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. up to. a fifth. of all of the. politicking i'm larry k

i've been teaching the bible from the hebrew my whole life and. non jews and jews equally have taken the courses and thousands bought my tapes i have something i know how to make it relevant i just admitted that that's the reason that i'm doing this the bible was america's central book for most of its history today it's ignored i would like to re re center it in american life it's the greatest book ever written but if you just sit down and read it you will know why and i'm i try to explain i'll give you want to example it says honor your father and mother the severity profound things were told to love god were told to love the stranger and were told to love our neighbor. but we're never told to love our parents because the bible is very sophisticated and understand some children a lot of children just can't love their parents still inches kids not duchesse still interest normal know even in normal homes but whether you like your parent or not you have to honor them it's like i stood up when jimmy carter entered m

the bible in particular. dational document of western civilisation, it can reveal things to us about ourselves and what we believe and how we should act more than can be discovered in most any other story. the bible is central to your belief systems? no, it is central to western culture. it is the foundational document of western culture. and this word truth, which is quite an important word for you, you think the bible contains a few kabul truce? well, you think the bible contains a few kabultruce? well, i don't know you think the bible contains a few kabul truce? well, i don't know what area kabul truce? well, i don't know what are a feudal means necessarily but it certainly contains a form of truth, it's narrative form of true. it is the same form of truth is he presented in front of you when you go see movies or when you read great literature. there is a truth in that. foodies are fiction. but we wouldn't be able to rank order fiction according to its quality if there wasn't some relation to truth. —— movi

it does give a different perspective on the bible and he suggested one month, i think, 3 months is more reasonable, but another book that i was given by the author is bigger than me by ward brin because the african development fund and there he mention that is in the new testament after you get through the gospels, the rest of the books are arranged in order of length, longest to shortest and then revelation. that never occurred to me. i thought there was some rhyme or reason. i ran into a book called the chronological bible and it changes the whole perspective on the -- on reading the bible because they mixed different chapters in according to when they actually happened and it's actually much less confusing than reading the bible, but special friend of mine did an outstanding job on a book where he covered his history that, i guess, the subtitle of his book is when i thought i had all of the answers god changed the questions. [laughter] >> and so it's his journey, faith journey and what -- how africa has affected him. he said when you reach your own people, your own town, comfort zone

the bible is central to your belief systems? no, it is central to western culture. document of western culture. and this word truth, which is quite an important word for you, you think the bible contains irrefutable truth? well, i don't know what irrefutable means necessarily, but it certainly contains a form of truth, it's narrative form of truth. it is the same form of truth you see presented in front of you when you go see movies, or when you read great literature. there is a truth in that. movies are fiction. but look, we wouldn't be able to rank order fiction according to its quality if it didn't bear some relation to truth. it is viewed right around the world and has millions of viewers who are not from a tradition at all, they may be hindus, muslims, they may be animists, but how can they therefore refer to your 12 rules for life when they are so wedded to the culture and traditions and the truths of the bible? i also draw on other traditions extensively throughout the book and also in my first book. but the attitude that i am taking towards the stories that

the the god of this bible is the same god who said love your neighbor as yourself love the stranger there was the first time in the in the history of the world people were told to love people who were different from them it is the most frequent law in the torah the first five books love the stranger so for them this is the canaanites were considered particularly evil they were the ones who did child sacrifice and that was the way it was understood you will slay your enemy what is he supposed to say. let them continue sacrificing children i mean i don't i don't have a perfect answer but the only reason we asked the question is because of that book that book gave us the moral standards to question god is real means fight with god that book is not in our constitution you're right but it our constitution is predicated on that but does that mean it means that every one of the founders and even later lincoln lincoln did not go to church regularly but the the book on his night table was the bible this country is in moral chaos precisely because it's not on people's night tables where in moral ch

. —— orthodox teachings of the bible. —— orthodox teaching of the bible. s the sign of a leader. let's talk about james. is the sign of a leader. let's talk about james. i have a cold coming on... stay away from me. the london underground... i have this rule that ido underground... i have this rule that i do not touch the side of any handrail on the underground and if i didi handrail on the underground and if i did i try to clean my hands. it is really intelligent because the chip isa really intelligent because the chip is a gigantic petrie dish. —— the tube. anyone living in london, would love to see this. they have had to combat of different bacteria is. you get the influx of people in the morning commute. in 11 different lines and everybody is going around and they are tracking the movement of the james but in a way it is important because human beings have to be exposed to james to keep our resistance. some james are important, otherjames not so much. let's move on. amazon has been hugely controversial in terms of tax in the uk. according to this report

and that is when i began really rethinking the whole issue, revisiting what the bible actually says, actually, that the verses i thought were prohibitive of same—sex relationships, i think we havejust misunderstood them in the church. so it took me a long time, several years of study and prayer, but i do believe that now, that god actually creates many of us to be lgbt, and that is who we are meant to be. thing is, many people who used to be sort of coreligionists of yours, in those nominations that one could loosely described as fairly evangelical, quote unquote "fundamentalist" in their christian beliefs, very heavily based upon scripture and fairly literal translation or use of scripture, they now regard you as something of a traitor. yes. they believe that you have found a path that is based upon lies, and indeed, in a sense, a betrayal of jesus christ and his life and teachings. yes, i think that has been the most crushing part. i knew that i would probably lose my music career, which i did. there was a huge boycott of my music, but ijust hadn't expected quite the amount of vitr

but the bible talks about the way that earth is set up. it has pillars set in, there's a depth underneath, that's where the -- swims, one of the things about flat earth that seems so ridiculous, we know there's a flat earth because we have a picture of it. or if the earth was flat, gravity would work in a horribly strange way in which trees on the edge would all point to the center because of where the gravity would be. we think, we have not worked out the math on the flat earth gravity system, but underneath that is about biblical literalism and the bible being true. and having a debate over whether how satellites would work is not nearly as important as the idea that the bible is true and the bible tells me this. and the reason this is being covered up is because modern american society hates the bible and wants to convince people the bible isn't true with the idea of a round earth. right? so the debate over the flat earth seems like the easiest debate in the world to win, that this is literally going to take no time. but underneath it i

but this is all about trying to make the bible true. having a debate on whether satellites work is not nearly as important that the idea the bible is true and the bible tells me this. the reason this is being covered up is because modern american society hates the bible and wants to convince people it is not true with this idea of around the earth. the debate over the flat earth seems like the easiest debate like it will take no time, underneath it is deeper issues of identity and belief not attached to the argument. question. >> i want to go back to my question about measuring religious affiliation or belief, i feel that all of these examples in some way connect to some religious component, so, how, could you study this, what someone's religious beliefs are, i feel like in every single one of these there is some level of reference to the bible or anti- semitism, some religious component. so if you take the religion out of it and you put cultures and societies that are not affiliated in any way, how it is that looking at different? >> it

and there's some sentences in the bible that talks about that too. i think we talk about what religions are safe from evidentiary language. >> in conversation if someone believes something is religious the response tends to be among, if someone says i believe j.f.k. was shot by the mob, that is a conversation we can have evidentiary. if someone says i believe in jesus as my personal savior, i don't feel the sense that you have opened a conversation about evidence. i will say that you're right in the sense that people from outside of a religion with look at things inside of a religion to justify their prejudices against that religion. for muslim what is the struggle? what are we talking about, to what degree can we look at something that justifies violence and the bible is a very violent book particularly the old testimony. but what i mean with the evidentiary claims, we seem to give them a pass to claims. >> if someone says i believe in ala it's like oh my god, you're going to want to attack. >> i don't think everybody reacts that way but i certainly

the cannot take six months often go to bible school. but they can come for five days to the code for a intense bible study. was their vision to bring people here. to spread the word of god. the only book we use here at the coast, is the bible. for every teacher that comes, use the bible as a textbook. property,otels on the and the main conference center of their. where we are sitting right now is the chapel. very influential in a lot of what happened around here. she loved the chapel. she would keep it simple. she said no stained-glass windows, can't beat what god is but outside these windows. no sting less windows. she also came out one day they're putting the steeple on. not pleased at all, because it was not high enough. she said it is not high enough. said how heidi want that steeple? she said hi can ago #it kept going higher and higher. it cannot get any higher. she said that will be fine. i don't know if you had a goal. he knew he wanted to do. that was that he wanted the anything he could to serve god in whatever way got one in hi

perfect love casts out fear, the bible teaches. think of the famous psalm 23, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for thou art with me and comfort me. fear is not a christian habit of mine. nonow again, my theological and religious tradition teaches me we live in a very broken world. i've learned that from reading the protestant reformers, people like reinhold mueller. the world is broken and fear is a natural product of that. we are all afraid, but it is not a christian option as they read my bible to dwell in their fear or to build policy around here were to build public engagement with the world around that fear. it leads evangelicals to find salvation or saviors in things other than their highest allegiances of the person god has been get their highest allegiances to. as i began to explore this i began to conclude one could write an entire history of american evangelicalism with fear at the center. in almost every instance whenever there is some kind of significant social, cultural or reli

but also of quality, in terms of but american christianity has little to do with the religion of the bible , instead christian institutions have largely been colonized of what is called moralistic and therapeutic a pseudo- religion about being

peace, asple live in the bible says. madalyn, do you believe the president is a christian and has the same values and morals that you do? no, i don't know that he is a christian. but the bible teaches us that god chooses people that are not thestian to carry out things that he has purposed. if we believe the bible, we will let god take care of president trump and he will get his just dues when the time comes. but it will not be us to criticize him when he has done as much as he has for this country. host: ok. mike in maywood, illinois. independent. time i saw first barry hussein obama speak, i knew he was -- he cannot be trusted. i would not buy a junk car from him from a junkyard. for the first time in my life -- i'm 80 years old. we finally have a decent, patriotic, full american president in donald trump. there were so many scandals that obama's administration, it's unbelievable. he had a lot of buffer zones. everybody protected him, everybody believed him. to socialistic, bolsheviks attitudes. bolshevik attitude. inca

and the bible belt the pot store the bible belt it is important they stopped in the united states as support for president trump and his party so we'll have this aspect and i would say that to the the parts store who is of the same. protestant could not take ition christian connotation as the vice president of the united states plays a big role and we need to find a face saving mechanism to get this passed out of the fire line i think that is important yes there are other considerations and. like the game turkey plays by being room have in have out nato have with the with have with putin buying one material from the russians etc etc i think he is over stretching its limits and where he is vulnerable he has now been taught that there's no free lunch even not for it turkish president on the other hand the american president doesn't care too much about what's going on in europe including turkey. he has his own domestic agenda so we are in a very precarious situation and i as a german european i therefore think that not only germany but the european union heads to play a certain role in

we shall now discuss the new deliverer of the bible that's right dennis prager following these words like you. are a. russian and i see. you know world big partisan mocks and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

online prager university bestselling author his latest book is an unbelievable publication the rational bible exodus god slavery and freedom then has recently said that america's show going on. hysteria over the unlikely possibility. to win in two thousand and sixteen he also asserts that america's the least races multicultural country in the history of the world will explore those claims and other things as dead as prager joins me here on set we will discuss the book in a while did you take three years off to write this i took i didn't take any time off but i i would say that that is a thirty year work that you go to mt sinai to write a druggie to deliver it down you know but i will tell you it would be it would have been impossible if i didn't have a really good grasp of hebrew grammar that because i know biblical hebrew really well and it's a blessing that i do and that maybe that's in part what made this possible i'm doing one for each of the first five books well it's a big deal but you need a lot of english in all of them yes and and it was that i can i says i just want to say one more

the bible been to get. to the little bit of an hour before i want to go to the i don't know how to put it but it would mean to you i'm telling you. i don't believe that we are there live from what i mean when i will follow the bible didn't look awful as i did when they were. on the mountain i think a lot of them not only knew of the back side the side of us from the wash up that if that is your son calling just scientists you get border and something but has to hide that they've managed to bury a man that. big draws the border. to show us and i said glenn they include the fellow bottom of my case i don't want the idea that mama taught a. lot of my mother why i came. to get the photo mother. was a little the borderline little boy. my own mother doesn't recognize the role hinge of genocide or even wrote in jazz in this city the word itself is under a tacit. here that simply called muslims or terrorists. we're trying to arrange an interview with the sun sochi the state council of mind ma a nobel peace prize lau

no, ok, if you say you're a protestant following the bible, you've got to provide the evidence from thehave to provide evidence from the koran. so, where in the koran, mr sackur, is the evidence that facemasking is permitted and tolerated and encouraged by the koran? they cannot produce that. it's not a question of whether it's specifically permitted, you're implying that it is specifically ruled out of order by the koran, and i'm not sure where that verse is either. no, i'm not saying that, i'm saying these people defending the burqa, defending facial masking on the basis of a religion, they are lying. they are not being truthful. let's move onto a different aspect of the language you use, and i talked about the notion of responsibility coming with the freedom of expression. you've used a phrase, fifth columnist. you've talked about muslims in this country who you say use issues like the burqa to go much further. you say they're fifth columnists who will only be satisfied when they've brought this country into a full form of sharia law. are you serious about that? yes, i think this is

i -- that comes from growing up going to hebrew school and reading the bible at a very early age, whichght lens, it can also be very funny. for example, my -- my favorite story in the bible is when god appears to abraham. abraham, according to the bible, is 99 years old. and god appears and says, "i'm lord, thy god." so, abraham is like "whoa, okay." [ laughter ] and then the very next thing, god says, without missing a beat is, "circumcise your penis." [ laughter ] he goes straight to it. so, there's this 99-year-old man. he's just met god and now he's got to -- gotta do this thing. and so, the whole bible is just full of madness. [ laughter ] and i always thought, you know, wouldn't it be funny -- isn't it funny, you imagine somebody with all this power who is a little bit irrational. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] >> and that's -- and that's why i'm so excited we got to cast steve buscemi. [ laughter ] >> seth: that is a -- a perfect person to encapsulate that. thank you so much for being here, buddy. >> thanks so much. >> seth: congrats on the book. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause

what is god saying to people in the bible?s us, i will never feel you, nor forsake you, and you are as husband and wife, anoint one another with those words of promise, everyday for the rest your lives. —— will never fail you. and never stop dreaming. rest your lives. —— will never fail you. and neverstop dreaming. in your heart, always say those words, repeat those words, i will never feel you are forsake you. —— will neverfail feel you are forsake you. —— will never fail you. feel you are forsake you. —— will neverfail you. stephen feel you are forsake you. —— will never fail you. stephen and jordan are never fail you. stephen and jordan a re newlyweds never fail you. stephen and jordan are newlyweds and be as comedian very important question of how pa rents very important question of how pa re nts ca n very important question of how parents can pass the faith onto their children. i know the church in ireland has carefully and accurately prepared catechism programmes for teaching the faith in schools and parishes. this is, o

at the bible museum. so looking forward to getting my reading late in the evening, whenever i get that chance. but it's important to me. >> booktv wants the know what you're reading. send us your summer reading list @booktv on w twitter, instagramo or on facebook. booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. .. and the other commodities because that's what the police can come and check things. try once only the camp and was loved the content of train number nine. what kind of thin things on that train do you think? >> guest: as far as i heard, like i remember i saw a big pair and apple. it was really big. the person who is carrying that gave to us. they were like having special food that grew in very special environment. in north korea sugar is very special thing. i heard they can get sugar water. that was, how is that being produced. that was not normal food that was being transported to pyongyang. >> host: and your book "in order to live" you write that you would've done anything for a bowl of rice

bible. i'm not hiding the fact that it's a bible. eal tech technical i'm holding a black book um it do have been a blue book, a yellow book or a book about butterflies but it's a book. so the mall, fashion island said yeah they aimproved the art they installed it there it was very prominently displayed in a couple of their malls. there was complaints about this offensive image. they came back to us and asked if we would change the image and do something more generic, which we agreed. to say then they told us they couldn't put any of it up because it was offensive. i thought why is it offensive now? you know, my bible. why is it all of the sudden offensive to even reference this book? i mean, you think of the lives that have been impacted by this book, how our country was impacted by this book. you know, universities like yale and harvard and the salvation army all started by people who believed the bible was the word of god. martin luther king influenced believed the bible is the word of god. those who advocated for the abolition of s

but also of quality, in terms of but american christianity has little to do with the religion of the bible , instead christian institutions have largely been colonized of what is called moralistic and therapeutic a pseudo- religion about being nice. for, liberalism under the post- christian order will become ever more intolerant for anything that looks like saturday. they will have to suffer. we should think of ourselves like hebrew and babylon. we also will hold our faith to future generations, we have to radically change the way we think and the way we live. either it becomes a way of life or at all. and so finally in this regard those that emerged out of the roman empire offers an example for us late christians to build communities to survive the dark age coming upon us. the option part comes from the final paragraph of mr. mcintosh so work after your virtue. mcintyre wrote in that earlier history when men and women of good will turn aside to and to identify the continuation of the moral community. but they set themselves to achieve instead often is not recognizing fully what they were

is ideas don't match up with any of what the bible is saying. —— is. match up with any of what the bible- is. ralph says donald trumpjust needs time to grow. any person that is young in christ is going to issues with their demeanour outwardly, measurably, especially if your whole life is on camera. but peter weiner, who worked for three republican presidents says donald trump is less a christian and more a hypocrite. i think that damaged donald trump is doing to christianity and damaging christians who are drunk supporters, is catastrophic. i have a very harsh indictment of the people who stood by him, who wore his sword and shield. the christians. with some now questioning their support, donald trump planted seeds of fear during a dinner with evangelical leaders at the white house on monday, warning that if they don't vote republican at the mid—term elections in november, then there will be civil unrest, even violence. martin bashir, bbc news, washington. staying in america now, i want to ta ke staying in america now, i want to take you to phoenix, arizona, these are live pictures of th

in order to avenge that blasphemy some christians from the bible belt in the us rekindled the anti rock music. and when fundamentalists are angry there are calls to burn the heretic so reluctant to teenagers to throw away their treasured beatles possessions was the ku klux klan with bonfires of books on records this one was a longview texas they seized the opportunity to show their christian seal so. there was a huge wave of protest radio stations would no longer air the album it's often the records were burnt to the k.k.k. was involved in that scheme they said we have to fight these people typical of the religious bigotry in american society where if you had believers the heat was on the beatles were safe. to be did. you have said. yes i did i was helping i couldn't believe that they. hear my record company insisted john lennon apologize which he actually did and then things fell back into place but still he was forced to apologize. i'm not saying that went great. i. just don't want to run. the thread caused by this controversy is one of the reasons the beatles stopped giving concerts.

writing that trump wanted to husband use his own book for his swearing in, she asked, instead of the bible, yeah, "the art of the deal" is a best seller. it's true, absolutely true." the art of the deal "was a best seller t sold over one million copies swi pretty close to the bible's five billion copies. fun fact, they're both ghostwritten. (laughter) and-- thank you, thank you very much thank you very much, and omarosa is not just relying on her memory here, she secretly recorded her meetings in the white house including chief of staff john kelly firing her in the situation room, the situation room? no, the situation room is for wars and for blitzers. you can't use the situation room as an all-purpose meeting room. attention staff it's susan's birthday there are cupcakes in the situation room. also there is an isis convoy closing in on raqqa, could someone below that up, please, thank you. anyway, here is the tape of omarosa getting fired. >> i would like to see this be a friendly departure. there are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that would mak

>> a whole bible is on here? >> so theages. >> ...lunar bibles, the lost books of apollo. >> well, reverend stout and his wife,en they left nasa, just kind of vanished from the pages of history. >> until a court puts them under a microscope. >> you're saying that her intentions were sinister? >> and the value of each tiny bible -- out of this world. >> items that have gone to the moon can command six or seven figures. >> if you do the math, that's a lot, a lot of money. [ door creaks ]

the bible belt of the southern united states — how evangelical christians see donald trump.england are overwhelmed by india in the 3rd test at trent bridge. good evening. more bodies have been recovered in the indian state of kerala — after devastating floods that have claimed nearly 200 lives in the last 10 days. many people have been killed by landslides — which have swept entire villages away. the flooding is the worst for a century, and has also left 300 thousand people homeless. our correspondent yogita limaye reports now from kerala. the help they were waiting for has finally arrived. this baby was rescued from a southern district. the boy's mother had been airlifted just before him. they are among hundreds of thousands who have had to leave their homes, finding shelter at schools turned into relief centres. there are nearly 4000 people here, ages been sent by the government that they are receiving supplies from people who wa nt to receiving supplies from people who want to help. instead of running the school he normally heads, this man is managing the centre. it is mo