Intelligence is a Curse

[thesummerqueen]

I believe he was simply asserting that literal line for line compliance without using any reading comprehension skills (ie. exegesis, eigesis, context, translation, etc.) at all is quite ludicrous on any topic.

Isn't comprehension and context exactly why we say this is ludicrous to begin with?

And why does he believe that? Because he read it in the Old Testament... which is the book of my people: the Jewish people. And that book wasn't good enough for you Christians...was it? You went, "No! We've got a better book! With a better character! You're gonna love him!" And you called your book "new" and said our book was "old"! And yet every Sunday I turn on the television set and there's a priest or a pastor reading from my book! And interpreting it, and their interpretations, I have to tell you, are usually wrong.

It's not their fault... 'cause it's not their book. You never see a rabbi on T.V. interpreting the New Testament, do you?