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- Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Reason and logic vs. religion?
- From: "McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:20:12 -0600
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> I started reading the Bible seriously in 1986, and I have found it to be
> the most fascinating and wise book I have ever read. Indeed in places,
> I find that it differs from what I used to think were "traditional
> Christian positions," and it always seems to me that it is the Bible
> that is right and the traditional views that are wrong.
>
> There are many great pieces of literature. As I have said elsewhere, I
> am recently really getting into Shakespeare. But nothing matches the
> beauty and wisdom of the Bible.
I am SO thankful that my 10th grade English teacher brought in the Bible and gave us assignments under the auspices of "studying the Christian mythology." All other philosophical issues aside, the Bible (and the Qur'an) are *fantastic* works of literature, as the Iliad and the Odyssey before them.
--J
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