I was thinking of making a list of things pop culture stole from the Bible. Or deliberately constructed to "paint over" the Bible, having people think of their imitation instead of the original Biblical meaning and context. They take a name, a phrase, an idea, and redirect it into pop culture and conceal the Biblical source. When people bring it up they're talking about the pop culture, almost never the source. It's a big topic. ---------- --- some i can think of --- snow white - "white as snow" is a comes up in the Bible in significant context. didn't come from disney or fairytales. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/search.php?hs=1&q=white+as+snow usa president lincoln's house divided phrase came from the Bible. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Mark-3-25/ when you hear "fourscore" that lincoln "fourscore and seven years ago" comes to mind and it's usually said in reference to that, when "fourscore" is Biblical language not just a historical meme. grapes of wrath book Revelation 14:18 “And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.” Revelation 14:19 “And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.” I think this means one of the things we're waiting on is for their iniquity to reach the level that's equally proportional to the response to come. tabernacle concert hall atlanta georgia - tabernacle is an important word from the Bible. i think the name of the band "the beatles" comes from "The Beatitudes" in the Bible. i feel like those religious cults like mormonism where there's one martin with many strats is playing off this, or inverting what it actually means. Isaiah 4:1 "And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach." I guess you could say them dressing up their pagan tree decoration tradition as "christmas" fits in this category. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Jeremiah-10-3/ them choosing 911 based on this verse is tangentially related to this category. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Jeremiah-11-9/ ---------- more of them Beatles Hey Jude - Book of Jude Jeremiah was a Bullfrog - Jeremiah sunk into the mire Jeremiah 38:6 "woah dude, its all vibrations" / Big Bang - God made the world with his voice. Levi Jeans - tribe of Levi and Levi son of Jacob Beer - Beer Well Numbers 21:16 Mountain with smoke ring on top Zelda - They might be giants - biblical giants Broadway Theater - Broadway to destruction (theater is also an anagram of thereat, which appears in that verse Matthew 7:13) Moab Bomb - Moab tribe, Moabite people