It has to do with being athiest and it is a wonderful book dealing with religion and with those who don't go to chruch, and what it's like to be having all those religion people shoving religion down your throat.
2007-01-10 00:13:45 · 14 answers · asked by amazon 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Inherit The Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, made into a movie which has Spencer Tacy Fredric March, and Gene Kelly. I know the teacher lost the battle but that made it illegal to teach religion in schools.
2007-01-10 06:19:07 · update #1
Sounds interesting with a lovely title. Yes, I'll definately look into that.
2007-01-10 00:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't read it but I've seen the movie of that title - is it the same story?
If you are interested in it, you might keep an eye out for performance by Gary Anderson, who travels around doing a one-man play about Clarence Darrow. He is spell-binding. And Darrow was a facinating man, who not only represented John Scopes but also many others in the interest of defending civil liberties.
Anderson also does a show on William Jennings Bryant but I haven't seen that. I'm sure it would be interesting. You can find his tour schedule in the link below.
2007-01-10 00:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about the Scopes "monkey trial" I believe. A teacher in Tennessee was fired for teaching evolution and Clarence Darrw defended him. William Jennings Bryan helped the prosecution. Scopes lost the case but the bad press on the ridiculous beliefs of the religious zealots was significant.
2007-01-10 00:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't read the book. I saw the movie staring Spencer Tracy as the Atheist defense attorney. I loved it. They made some great movies back in the days when people had to act and not just jump around and dodge bullets. OO
2007-01-10 00:26:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
particular, I surely have. right this is something you ought to understand: final year the Pew talk board on faith and Public existence carried out a survey on non secular expertise. between Jews, Mormons, Catholics Protestants and so on. the gang which known the final non secular expertise replaced into - you guessed it - atheists. in actuality i might motivate all and sundry to verify the Bible. i think of it is significant for information many literary references. additionally, interpreting the Bible will effect in greater atheists. Many atheists are purely people who've heard the multiple claims that a particular magic e book - no remember if it relatively is the Koran, Bhagavad Gita or the Bible - is so profound that it is going to have been divinely authored. examine those books and located the claims to be ridiculous.
2016-10-06 22:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by laseter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think i shove my beliefs down there throat more then they do mine haha. But mines true at least. Ive read the god delusion another book i would reccomend. It made me feel alot better about being atheist. Who is inherit the wind by and what is it about.
2007-01-10 00:22:13 · answer #6 · answered by Beaverscanttalk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A good version of the play that's on DVD or VHS would be the one with Spencer Tracy from 1960. Clear, crisp images and good acting.
2007-01-10 00:21:21 · answer #7 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's an awesome book, and it's a foreshadowing to the debate that's still going on today.
For those of you who have never heard of it, it's a play based on the real-life Scopes Monkey Trial.
2007-01-10 00:17:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, back in high school. Although, at the time, I didn't know there was a still a controversy over evolution, so I just saw it as kind of quaint.
2007-01-10 00:33:17 · answer #9 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have not. I have read Sam Harris and tolerated the windy-ness of Dawkins (man that guy likes to hear his own voice). Who is the author?
2007-01-10 00:18:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋