Echols and Baldwin were close friends, and bonded over their similar tastes in music and fiction, and over their shared distaste for the prevailing cultural climate of West Memphis, situated in the Bible Belt.

Richard Corliss of TIME likened Footloose to the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause and the old Mickey Rooney / Judy Garland musicals, commenting that the film includes " motifs on book burning, mid-life crisis, AWOL parents, fatal car crashes, drug enforcement, and Bible Belt vigilantism.

The outlook and values of this time and place ( in his own words, " The Bible Belt ") had a definite influence on his fiction, especially his later works, as he drew heavily upon his childhood in establishing the setting and cultural atmosphere in works like Time Enough for Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

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According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Wayne County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Stoddard County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), St. Francois County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Shannon County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Scott County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Ripley County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Reynolds County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Phelps County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

Unlike many rural counties throughout Southeast Missouri, Perry County is exempt from the Bible Belt with Roman Catholicism being the majority religion, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ).

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), OregonCounty is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), New Madrid County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Mississippi County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2010 ), Grundy County is sometimes regarded as being on the northern edge of the Bible Belt, with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Dunklin County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Douglas County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Dent County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Carter County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Cape Girardeau County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Butler County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Bollinger County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

Now, if any part of the Bible is assuredly the very Word of God speaking through His servant, it is John's Gospel.

To ask me to believe that so inexpressibly marvelous a book was written long after all the events by some admiring follower, and was not inspired directly by the Spirit of God, is asking me to accept a miracle far greater than any of those recorded in the Bible.

To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.

The Bible is as obviously and truly food for the spirit as bread is food for the body.

That is why the Bible commands you to `` Taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed ( happy ) is the man that trusteth in Him '' ( Psalm 34: 8 ).

The prison chaplain mistakes Alex's Bible studies for stirrings of faith ( Alex is actually reading Scripture for the violent passages ).

In the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, Aaron ( or ; Ahărōn, Hārūn, Greek ( Septuagint ): Ααρών ), who is often called "' Aaron the Priest "' () and once Aaron the Levite () ( Exodus 4: 14 ), was the older brother of Moses, ( Exodus 6: 16-20, 7: 7 ; Qur ' an 28: 34 ) and a prophet of God.

Rabbi Shraga Simmons commented that within the Bible itself, the idea reincarnation is intimated in Deut.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

The Elim Fellowship began in 1933 as the Elim Ministerial Fellowship, an informal fellowship of graduates of Elim Bible Institute.

Another project aimed to create something in between the very literal translation of the King James Bible and the more informal Good News Bible.

The typically informal designation emphasizes that the holder has accepted responsibility toward the Bible and preaching the Bible.

The Bible is often studied in informal small groups, and groups within parachurch organizations.

The JPS Bible translation is used in rabbinical and Christian seminaries, on hundreds of college campuses, in informal adult study settings, in synagogues, and in Jewish day schools and supplementary programs.

* Rubber Bible, informal name for " CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics "