07-31-2007, 08:19 PM
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Location: Between Iraq and a hard place
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Quote:
Unfortunately, however, the tolerance and sympathy which in modern
times have been manifest for people having divergent views have not been
shown so generously toward the Bible itself. Many of the scientific world
having discovered that the earth is round and not flat as the people of the
Old Testament evidently believed it to be have ungenerously, and it seems
to me, ruthlessly, thrown the good book into the discard with unconcealed
contempt. They point out with gloating satisfaction that the God of the
Hebrews is a capricious, jealous, tribal God fighting the battles of his
favored people and reveling in the defeat of their enemies....
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It's an interesting letter.
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