[lbo-talk] Fundamental problem...

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Sun Nov 7 14:40:37 PST 2004


Some religious people can speak rationally outside the "box" of their faith. Some can't. The ones who can't are the fundamental problem as they continually conflate knowledge with faith and use their political influence to try to turn history back to a more religious, less scientifically informed age. I would suggest that a project for the left would be to try spead some of the Enlightenment around in the more backward, self-assured BIBLE, KORAN etc. pounders of the world.

Best, Mike B)

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The five "fundamentals" of Christian belief that were enumerated in a series of 12 paperback volumes containing scholarly essays on the Bible that appeared between 1910 and 1915, entitled The Fundamentals. Those included:

1.. Biblical inerrancy

2.. The divinity of Jesus

3.. The Virgin Birth

4.. The belief that Jesus died to redeem humankind

5.. An expectation of the Second Coming, or physical return, of Jesus Christ to initiate his thousand-year rule of the Earth, which came to be known as the Millennium.

1) a strong emphasis on the inerrancy of the Bible;

2) a strong hostility to modern theology and to the methods, results and implications of modern critical study of the Bible, and

3) an assurance that those who do not share their religious viewpoint are not really "true Christians"

They also believe in "six-day" Creationism, the doctrine that the universe was created only a few thousand years ago, rather than the billions claimed by modern science, and that God created man and woman and all the species outright, rather than by a process of evolution. Also included is the belief that only King James Version Bible of 1611 is the only correct text.

===== All four gospels are anonymous texts. The familiar attributions of the Gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John come from the mid-second century and later and we have no good historical reason to accept these attributions.

-Steve Mason, professor of classics, history and religious studies at York University in Toronto (Bible Review, Feb. 2000, p. 36)

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