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• Sunday, November 2, 2008 08:06 PM

  the "Biblical worldview"

  "We have a biblical worldview here, so vote for candidates who are going to do that -- who are going to uphold the Biblical worldview we all have."

  Ironically, Jesus Christ never mentioned anything in his teachings about a "Biblical worldview." He couldn't have. The Bible had not yet been compiled as a single text consisting of two testaments- by the Council of Nicea, an essentially political body settling essentially political questions in the name of "the Christian Church", which had by then mutated into a political establishment. This was in total disregard of the teachings of the Gospel warning about the terrible problems associated with confusing a spritual quest with designs on earthly political power- for what that's worth. The words of Christ...the record is explicit about what he said on that subject, there's no need to attempt elaborate interpretations or reading between the lines in order to come to that conclusion.

  Neither did Jesus ever demand a return to the strict social codes of ancient texts like Deuteronomy and Leviticus- unlike the American "Biblical Reconstructionists", who demand the "return" to a theocracy based partially on those codes.

  "Bible fundamentalists" haven't yet managed to figure this con game out- even though meditation on [i]what Jesus actually said[/i] could cut through the con game quite directly.

  But then, most of these people don't realize that their "ne plus ultra-orthodox" Christianity is only around a century old. Saint Paul and Saint Peter would find their interpretations largely unrecognizable; but I'm of the mind that the dry-humored rabbi who told off the Sanhedrin to their faces would have found it all too wearily familiar.

  —cabdriver Read cabdriver's other letters
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