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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: soc.singles,talk.religion.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Christmas parties
Keywords: Jesus, history, blindness
Message-ID: <1923@celtics.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 15:12:50 GMT
References: <8712231623.AA24882@decwrl.dec.com> <1340@vaxwaller.UUCP> <6442@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <212@sp7040.UUCP> <6565@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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In article <6565@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> markxx@garnet.berkeley.edu (,,,,MG59) writes:
>Take for instance the Genesis account of creation in 6 days.  IF you go back
>to the original language, and compare that passage to other secular texts
>written at the same time, it becomes clear that the passage is written as
>allegorical poetry. 

This is an absurd cop-out... trying to use the Bible both as a work of
divine information AND, when that fails, as a work of human
literature.  If you believe in it as a holy book, it must be treated as
literal and divine; any revisionist interpretation that subjects it to
literary interpretation and then continues to use it to defend a
religious position is a wishy-washy drivel, fit only for the students
of homogenized Sunday-school religion to use this half-assed reading to
break some commandments, or endorse scientific principles at odds with
the literal content, and still believe they're in God's grace.

Get ON the bandwagon, or get OFF it.

(I make no claims herein about my beliefs, or, alternatively, lack
thereof.)
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