On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Dennis Claxton wrote:
> >
> >[clip[
> > Here's the quote:
> >
> > "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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