Try telling that to Jerry Falwell. After almost a 12 hour day, I get home last night and have to act civil to a pair of bapsit proselytizers. They unfortunatley were literalists of the most obnoxious sort. My own take on the thing is that there is a place for religion, and in my face is definately not one. What blows me away is that they seriously think that the bible is a taxonomy. Simply amazing.
I should have released the ferrets on them. larry On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:43:32 -0400, Judith Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bible has many facets, Isaac, and much of its explanation is in the oral law > (midrash, commentaries, Mishnah and Talmud), so it's not always meant to be taken > literally. > > Judith > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Well it'd be tough to be a biblical literalist and also believe that > > modern astronomy has any merrit... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| The annual ColdFusion User Conference is being held Sat 6/26 - Sun 6/27/04 8am-5pm in the Washington DC Area. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=44 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132254 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
