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• Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:39 PM

  To Chloe, rtf100

  Marcotte wasn't fired or forced to resigned by the Edwards Campaign but rather a combination of the right-wing media feeding frenzy and the threats she received. Whether one agrees with the outcome or Marcotte's decision, the tactics are reprehensible and a threat to Democratic party. I have no doubt that these very same people will use similar tactics to smear whoever is the Democratic Presidential nominee.

  I also find the fuss about Jesus' conception to be ironic. Recent scholarship has all but proven that the virgin birth came to Christian texts very late and did not appear in early texts. Its presence is likely is due to either a mistranslation or deliberate revision in the story of Jesus to answer critics who noted that Jesus was an illegitimate child. The only faith Marcotte could have attacked is a faith in a version of the story of Jesus that provably didn't happen.

  I agree that Marcotte's statements are somewhat in inflammatory. She'd be more effective digging into history and scholarship surrounding the early gospels. The misognyst interpretation of the Bible relies heavily on the Old Testament and passages in the New Testament that are of questionable authenticity. Though most of the modern faithful don't know it, the Old Testament was only added to the Bible for its prophecy of the messiah. The inclusion of the Old Testament was never intended by the compilers of the canon to be an endorsement of its other contents. Otherwise, all Christians would be bound to live by the Jewish law mandated in the Old Testament.

  —Monkey In Chief Read Monkey In Chief's other letters
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