Hi Mary, I think you make an excellent point.
Best, Steve Mary: > I would argue that Campbell was being disingenuous in his argument. I saw > the Moyer's series when first run, in 1988 did you say? and remember > thinking this at the time. He was pandering to fundamentalists with his > assertions about atheists. He set up a straw man atheist to knock down so > that he would be viewed as fair-minded. He was right in his objections to > fundamentalists casting mythology as historical fact and thus ruining it > for > everybody, but wrong in his objections to atheists doing the same. > > Atheists do no such thing. We are fully aware that biblical mythology is > to > be understood as metaphor. We also see the beauty in it, and appreciate it > for what it is, but fundamentalism makes every effort to rob us and > everyone > else of that pleasure, and we object. The bible has many good and wise and > useful things to say. What atheist's object to is the twisting of that > into > unyielding 'historical' fact. If fundamentalists were not around to do so, > atheists would certainly not be proclaiming that it was. If > fundamentalist's were not so aggressively in our faces with their 'facts', > we would all be able to relax and appreciate the many beautiful stories, > lessons, and metaphors in the bible. Personally, I resent that > fundamentalists have stolen the beauty from my bible and made it difficult > to appreciate what is found there. They would do well to remember that it > is not "their" bible, it is everyone's. > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
