Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:56:43 -0700
Subject: Re: Author under fire from fundies




Andy wrote:

> Thank god there's someone else out there on the list at any rate. Has
> it been quiet or is my workplace's server playing up?

I held up my end over the weekend. Don't blame me.

> On the article, funnily enough, I was having a conversation with my
> local vicar about OT God [or should it be OJ God?] the other day at a
> garden party [Like OT G and creation, I try to rest at least one day a
> week from the creativity that is the class struggle], and over the
> cucumber sandwiches [no crusts], and vol au vents, he pretty much
> agreed with the writer about the rather vengeful nature of OT G.

Verily (in fact, noted theologian and cool-ass sociologist Jacques Ellul
said that he was frankly embarrassed about the excesses of YHWH),
although I must point out that the writer in question was begging to be
flogged. You don't pen an article like that (especially on such an
overdone premise) without intending to rile up fundamentalists. Colour
me yawning.

> On the other hand, at that point in time OT G was the Jewish God,
> wasn't he? So what's their problem? These fundies  should either shut
> up and embrace the rather nicer Xtian NT G, or  get themselves
> circumcised.

The problem is that fundies draw their righteous vengeance kick from the
OT, so they're not going to be changing that bathwater anytime soon.
 
joshua h
http://www.biblebelievers.com/