Monday, July 17, 2006
Martin Marty challenges the literalism of self-proclaimed biblical literalists on the religious right. He makes a good point overall, but using Tom DeLay as the leading example of conservatives pulling scripture out of context seems one step removed from a straw man argument.
Rob
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2006/07/marty_on_script.html
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Theres some discussion at Mirror of Justice (here and here) of Martin Martys recent piece in The Christian Century, Snookered, which raises the issue of the validity of politicians invoking Scripture, using the example of Tom D [Read More]