Monday, January 17th, 2005

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The problem with fundamentalists isn't that they take the Bible literally. Many of them are quite well aware that the scripture is full of symbols and metaphors and complex ideas and oblique references to other bits of scripture as well as ideas floating around in the air at the time of writing. The problem is that instead of reading the poetry they find there, they listen to bad poetry teachers. They think they know better than you, not because they have breathed in, drunk, eaten, digested the poetry and made it a part of their being; but because they've memorized the Cliff's Notes and you haven't.
hummingwolf: Drawing of a creature that is part-wolf, part-hummingbird. (Hummingwolf by Dandelion)
If you are in the habit of asking yourself "What Would Jesus Do?" then you should be aware that, based on the available evidence, "Setting forth a rational systematic theology in simple declarative sentences" is never the right answer.


(Why yes, I have been reading Bible commentaries again. Why do you ask?)

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