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Quote (Acartia_Bogart @ Dec. 08 2014,21:03) | Quote (k.e.. @ Dec. 08 2014,14:56) | Quote (sparc @ Dec. 08 2014,22:34) | Quote (Bob O'H @ Dec. 08 2014,14:29) | Quote (KevinB @ Dec. 08 2014,10:59) | Quote (timothya @ Dec. 07 2014,02:24) | The Kairosfocus had this to say at UD: Quote | KB: I suspect that some clarification on the meaning/message and truth of Scripture is needed. First, that scripture must be understood on grammar, language [esp. Heb. Aramaic and Koine Greek], genre and imagery [What does Jesus mean to say, I am the Door . . . sensus literalis does not commit us to thinking of Oak or Cedar etc, and when Scripture portrays how Paul and Silas were beaten and thrown in stocks at Philippi it does not commend kangaroo courts but just the opposite, etc . . . ], context, setting and occasion, authorial intent, etc and so taking the text at its proper meaning per what it actually says vs what many may read into it, becomes important. You are right to highlight the problem of strawman caricatures and a subtext of contempt. Which, is ever more luridly revealing of the thoughts and intents of the heart in a culture where the chattering classes so often preen themselves on tolerance and cultural sensitivity. It is time for a rethink. KF |
What does this mean? |
Is this a trick question for the statistically challenged (and those at UD who aspire to achieve that level of competence)? | o Nope. Not even machine learning will help decipher that. |
My reading is that it is indeed possible to ignite a strawman soaked in ad hominem that is already fully burning. |
And verily thou shalt use straw to fuel the fire of ignorance. Thou shalt never partake of the red herring as Paul did at the Red sea. |
And he shall make your bricks without straw. And your tally shall remain unchanged.
Good thing this isn't UD. Mullings would ban us for blasphemy. |
He has been reading this site recently for sure. He seems to read it a lot. I would be unsurprised to see him work into one of his comments why the Bible doesn't say bats are birds which is indicative of the misunderstanding of the chattering classes etc etc. The Bible isn't the object of the joke, of course.
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