Even when I read the series in college,I felt anxious. You can seize a girl out of fundamentalist Christianity, but it’s tough to seize religion out of the girl While most of my friends remember elementary school as the time they discovered Harry Potter, or I remember third grade as the year when I read Judges 19 and learned approximately gang rape.
I no longer recall exactly why I was reading that Bible passage that young. I would like to say that it was in preparation for my private school’s annual Bible Competition,which was like a regular quiz bowl with the bonus of “sword drills,” where would would lift our Bibles in the air, and hands grasping the binding,count to three and then furiously page through to find Amos 2:10 and try to be the first to read aloud.
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Source: theguardian.com