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Clouseau · 10-20-2007, 07:20 PM

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News story for the broadband impaired - a decent summary

Pretty indecent, I'd say.

Magdlyn · 10-21-2007, 11:25 AM

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Pretty indecent, I'd say.

:grin:

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On the first day of a new term, Professor Bart D. Ehrman, author of the controversial Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Altered Scripture and Readers Who May Never Know, asked his students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill a series of questions:

"How many of you would agree the Bible is the inspired word of God?" he asked. Hands shot up.

"How many of you have read The Da Vinci Code?" He got the same reaction.

Then he asked how many had read the Bible cover to cover. "Scattered hands," he said.

Ehrman said the incident illustrated one of the paradoxes of living in the heart of the Bible Belt. "I can understand you wanting to read Dan Brown," he told them. "But if God wrote a book, wouldn't you want to read what He had to say?"

Yes, pretty indecent!

Reasons Christians give for not reading their book?

"Too long."

"Too boring."

"I don't understand it."

Yet, they believe it. :grin:

Clouseau · 10-21-2007, 12:25 PM

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Reasons Christians give for not reading their book?

Whose business is that?

Magdlyn · 10-21-2007, 01:36 PM

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Reasons Christians give for not reading their book?

Whose business is that?

Any intelligent questioning serious persons.' Anyone with an interest in how religions work, and in culture and anthropology in general. IMO.

Clouseau · 10-21-2007, 01:38 PM

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Whose business is that?

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Any intelligent questioning serious persons.'

Whose business is it to criticise?

Spanky · 10-21-2007, 02:13 PM

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Whose business is it to criticise?

Why ruin this perfectly good thread?

Clouseau · 10-21-2007, 02:20 PM

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Whose business is it to criticise?

Why ruin this perfectly good thread?

By asking a difficult, pertinent question?

Dear oh dear.

JEST2ASK · 10-21-2007, 02:28 PM

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Whose business is it to criticise?

Excuse me could you please clarify why it would not be someone's business to honestly observe and offer their opinion why do you think it is simply unwarrented criticism.

If in fact most Christians do not know about the history of their sacred text, e.g. early manuscrpts drastically different from the current canon,, that lack of knowledge should be questioned (IMO) and the fact that such issues are not addressed seems to me to be quite telling. But hey what ever :huh:

JEST2ASK · 10-21-2007, 02:33 PM

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By asking a difficult, pertinent question?

Dear oh dear.

I find that response very strange / ironic

when you are the one who posted

Whose business is that?

Clouseau · 10-21-2007, 02:35 PM

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Whose business is it to criticise?

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Excuse me could you please clarify why it would not be someone's business to honestly observe and offer their opinion

Why should it be?

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