i'm going to save this and post it at you every time you write on topics about which you have zero knowledge, with facebookery posts that have the distinct stench of a possum that crawled up your rectum and died.
At 05:38 PM 3/24/2010, Chris Doss wrote:
>I said "speak authoritatively about the Bible," not "say stuff."
>Obviously, if a Christian or Muslim or Jew is going to write a book about
>the Bible, he or she should be a Bible scholar. Otherwise, they don't know
>what the fuck they're talking about.
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Sent: Wed, March 24, 2010 9:39:00 PM
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?
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>On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dennis Claxton
><ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:
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> > The only people who have any business claiming to speak authoritatively
> >> about the Bible are Biblical scholars and scholars of ancient history,
> i.e.,
> >> people who can actually read the text in the languages in which it was
> >> written and know something about the societies from which it emerged.
> Other
> >> people should just shut up.
> >>
> >
> > Are you kidding? If that's the case then 99.9% of the people who believe
> > in and profess religious nonsense should shut the fuck up.
> >
>
>I think this exchange sums up my problems with Parenti and his ilk
>perfectly. They (and their supporters) bring about as much expertise to the
>table as the most comically stereotyped fundamentalists - and more often
>than not, consciously ape their intellectual approach, if anything dumbing
>it down - yet somehow imagine that they deserve to be taken more seriously.
>
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