Paul Gadzikowski
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Archy On Fundamentalism

the christian fundamentalist belief that
the bible is literal truth
literal history
doesn t make sense 
to me

either the bible was
written by fallible humans or
it was divinely inspired

if it was written
by fallible humans centuries
before the disciplines of what
even now is the soft
science of history
it won t be literal
history

if it was divinely 
inspired it also won t 
be literal history

jesus spoke in parables and 
metaphors e g jesus said quote 
the kingdom of heaven is in you 
unquote 
unless you re going to try 
to convince me that there s
a physical kingdom somewhere 
in my anatomy where 
miniature cherubim and 
seraphim live 
you must admit that 
jesus spoke in metaphors

so

assume that the bible 
was divinely inspired

recognize that jesus 
spoke in metaphors

who do you think 
he learned it from

if the bible is divinely
inspired it is not
literal history

q e d

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