[lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Mar 31 10:47:34 PDT 2010


Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> Here's the quote:
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> "Assessing the Bible in the light of literal interpretation as
> advocated by fundamentalist Christians, rather than inspiration
> Parenti finds a deeply troubling narrative ..."

What precisely does Parenti expect his book to achieve? Fundamentalists will pay no attention to it, and if they did would dismiss its arguments. Hence he can't be trying to change the mind of fundamentalists.

Non-fundamentalists, left or right, are by definition non-fundamentalists and reject fundamentalist use of the Bible. Hence he can't be correcting fundamentlaist ideas held by non-fundamentlists.

So what is he doing?

Carrol



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