For most people under the age of forty who grew up in the United States, the most commonly understood cultural metaphors were learned from watching Television programming and advertising.
By
Jim Ley
on March 10, 2007
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i'm not certain of it; we learn a lot from spending time with our peers. but i'll buy it for now.
I think I would still agree if you put the age limit at under 50.
Time Magazine
The Case for Teaching the Bible
by David Van Biema
April 2, 2007
page 43-44,46
If literature doesn't interest you, you also need the Bible to make sense of the ideas and rhetoric that have helped drive U.S. history. "The shining city on the hill"? That's Puritan leader John Winthrop quoting Matthew to describe his settlement's convenantal standing with God. ... When Martin Luther King Jr. talked of "Justice rolling down like waters" in his "I Have a Dream" speech, he was consciously enlisting the Old Testament prophet Amos, who first spoke those words.
...Kendrick aces the compulsories--notes John Locke's use of the Beatitudes and Frank Zappa's riffs on "the meek shall inherit the earth," and ponders why various politicians have found it more convenient to attribute the "city on a hill" to Winthrop rather than to Matthew.