The thing about fundamentalism in any religion (and I'm not sure this is the term to use for Orthodox Jews, but you know what I mean) is that not only do they insist on taking everything literally, but because they do that, they make themselves out to be hypocrites when they want something to go their way and it doesn't fit the Law of whatever religion they ascribe to. Christians do it all the time. They say they take the Bible literally, but if they did, wouldn't they eat Kosher too, or something close to it? They pull the miniscule amount of homosexual references out, and totally ignore the how many hundred dietary laws?
In my (admittedly biased) experience, people who interpret the Bible literally do so in search of justification for their own biases, not in search of moral guidance.
And to top it off, many English translations of the Bible (especially the King James version, which is often the one interpreted literally) have been acknowledged as being historically and factually inaccurate.
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Date: 2005-04-19 02:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-19 12:47 pm (UTC)The thing about fundamentalism in any religion (and I'm not sure this is the term to use for Orthodox Jews, but you know what I mean) is that not only do they insist on taking everything literally, but because they do that, they make themselves out to be hypocrites when they want something to go their way and it doesn't fit the Law of whatever religion they ascribe to. Christians do it all the time. They say they take the Bible literally, but if they did, wouldn't they eat Kosher too, or something close to it? They pull the miniscule amount of homosexual references out, and totally ignore the how many hundred dietary laws?
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Date: 2005-04-20 03:25 am (UTC)And to top it off, many English translations of the Bible (especially the King James version, which is often the one interpreted literally) have been acknowledged as being historically and factually inaccurate.