(September 12, 2013 at 11:39 pm)Drich Wrote: Wow. How can a guy smart enought to teach this stuff at Princeton, be so blind about the foundations of his own faith?
That right there. That's the sort of smugness that makes me laugh. It could be the case that a prestigious New Testament critic is 'blind' about the foundation of his former religion, but given it's his job and that the majority of reactions/reviews to his written works have predominantly been his peers something like "Meh, most of us know all this" or "Nothing new here, mostly a compilation of our field's accrued knowledge" it seems a better inference that you're blinder to your faith's foundation than he.