Entries Tagged with 'Literalism'
November 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments
About two weeks ago a friend gave me his copy of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. I had read all about it in 2007, having added the following to my mini-blog / delicious bookmarks (biblical+living):
27 SEP 07
A year of following all the rules in the Bible – Boing Boing
“I did everything [...]
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Categories: Worldviews
Tags: Books · Literalism
So a literal reading of Genesis (first book of the Torah) brings many people under the impression that the world/universe was created in six days, is less than 10,000 years old, and that there was a global catastrophic flood. Science teaches us that the universe is about 14 billion years old, that the earth and [...]
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Categories: Religion and Science · Website
Tags: Creationism · Genesis · Literalism
Thanks to Cobus for providing a link to this video clip in a comment on the previous post — John Dominic Crossan on The Dangers of Fundamentalism:
Please watch this video clip, especially if you are religious. It contains the food for thought that we need to think carefully about the dangers of certain ideological strains [...]
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Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Fundamentalism · John Dominic Crossan · Literalism · Terrorism
There's No Such Thing as "Faith":
CS Lewis' Mistake?:
Precepts and Faith:
"Community" versus "Tribe":
Joss Whedon on Faith and True Believers: