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  •  proof? no way! (none / 0)

    There's a lot of religious types that apply the scientific method to the bible, using the text as some huge unwieldy set of axioms. From there they arrive at all sorts of proofs which tell them to reject science! Isn't that ironic?

    That's not appropriate. Would you hold the writings in the bible to the same standards as the New York Times? Please! This body of writings comes from ancient times. The important thing is that all the human emotions described in the Bible are still valid - people are as vain, greedy, foolish, brave, spiritual, kind, etc. in the Bible as they are in real life today. We can't evolve very fast physically since our boides live so long. But we must evolve very fast spiritually to meet the challenges of this century and reverse widespread environmental destruction.

    In a democracy, everyone is a politician. ~ Ehren Watada

    by Lefty Mama on Sun Apr 03, 2005 at 11:42:54 AM PDT

    •  Ancient texts (none / 0)

      What bugs me is that works like the Iliad/Odyssey or Gilgamesh are treated as dead text while the Bible is supposed to be living literature.  They're all living literature or they're all dead letters.  My brother the classicist insists (rightly IMO) that if the Bible is to be treated as still relevant, then the others should be too.

      I reply (as a fan of ancient texts) that they are indeed treated similarly- many literature students are as bored with classic texts as many congregations are with Lovejoy-intoned scripture.

      mbr + dv + woyg

      by keirdubois on Sun Apr 03, 2005 at 12:50:59 PM PDT

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