Christianity is heading for a full allegorization

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Anything can be taken by the reader who is determined to excuse the errors, the bullshit, the colloquial crass and barbarous insinuations, and the disgusting and nauseating exhortations,   to be “an allegory”.  

Ignorant, dim witted, overreaching authors who wrote the garbage because they thought them to be literally true or because they think they can get away with bullshit, can be made to seem like not flippant ignoramuses but timeless sages by asserting what they clearly thought were true or meant to be taken as facts, in fact they knew to be false but presented with all the good and responsible heart to be allegorical.

Any who is determined to reference wisdoms that were not really clearly put there by the author just  to add value there explicitly wasn’t there in some favored and prized tome can call the work allegorical. 

Mein kampf can be taken to be an allegory.   Literally any narrative, true or false in each degree, can be taken to be allegorical, some how.  Try hard enough, even an mathematical treatise can be, and has been, asserted to be an allegorical book of some preconceived moral wisdom.

So Bible in this particular way is an allegory, so fucking what?    what makes it less of a bad book of allegory than the worst there is out there?

I largely agree. The tactic (and make no mistake - that’s exactly what it is) of declaring a passage to be allegorical is often little more than an attempt to excuse something that ranges from inconvenient to downright horrific.

Boru