I know. That's why I said "cited." :) Sorry for any apparent misattribution.
It just annoys the hell out of me when people say things like "most Christians believe most of the Bible to be (presumably literally) true," while the world's largest Christian denomination endorses the theory of evolution.
I am not a Christian or even really a theist, but these people are sparring with a Christianity-of-the-mind. I got the exact same thing from the opposite direction when I was in grad school at Catholic University, when some of the more obnoxious Catholic intellectuals would have long self-congratulatory wank sessions about how dumb secularists (and non-Catholics in general_ were. They had the exact same pattern of contempt for people who didn't share their presuppositions, misrepresentation of their beliefs, lack of knowledge of what they were talking about,and recourse to sophistry I've been witnessing in this venue for the last several days from an opposite direction. It's not pretty no matter who is doing it.
--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> Um... these weren't my comments. I noted that there
> is a Christian
> revolutionary tradition as well as a Christian
> tradition of voluntary
> servitude. To be perfectly honest, I think
> Spinoza's analysis in the
> Theological Political Treatise, which emphasizes the
> Bible as a book that
> prescribes social behavior in order to create social
> order. Spinoza
> emphasizes that the Bible's message is extremely
> simple and emphasizes
> obedience over understanding. Robert Wood
>
>
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