“the effect was to weaken religious faith in general and I think that was because of a tendency towards a narrow literalism that wouldn’t hold up in the context of evolutionary theory. That says more about people than the theory.”
True. That “narrow literalism” shouldn’t have held up, however, in any context - at least as far as literatur…
“the effect was to weaken religious faith in general and I think that was because of a tendency towards a narrow literalism that wouldn’t hold up in the context of evolutionary theory. That says more about people than the theory.”
True. That “narrow literalism” shouldn’t have held up, however, in any context - at least as far as literature is concerned. It inevitably distorts the meaning of any literary work - including the Bible. Would that folks approaching the Bible remember William Blake’s warning:
“the effect was to weaken religious faith in general and I think that was because of a tendency towards a narrow literalism that wouldn’t hold up in the context of evolutionary theory. That says more about people than the theory.”
True. That “narrow literalism” shouldn’t have held up, however, in any context - at least as far as literature is concerned. It inevitably distorts the meaning of any literary work - including the Bible. Would that folks approaching the Bible remember William Blake’s warning:
“This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.”