On Mar 24, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> The Bible is not supposed to be literally true, except in the
> fantasies of fundamentalists, who are an abberation in Christianity
> and exist in numbers only in the United States. Therefore,
> critiquing their paradigm is dumb (and also won't convince them).
I'm not sure what "supposed to be" means in this context, but that aside, the Bible is full of nonsense. It's got some merit as a literary work, and is obviously rather important in history, but let's not blind ourselves to the nonsense quotient. The OT in particular is full of toxic waste.
Doug