Now, this speaks for me
In his Townhall column today, Paul Greenberg says that in fundamentalists’ insistence on taking every last word of the Bible literally, they diminish its stature as a deep, rich, towering work of literature. He says it’s like reading Shakespeare for the plots only. Great literature, he says, mines every aspect and nuance of human existence, and employs every tool of communication to do so.
December 28th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Even though we increasingly “know” the scientific truth of the cosmos, there is timeless wisdom from here/then that we ignore to our considerable peril.