tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post8676351746239133381..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: About The Only Thing I Learned During My Arguments at Religion DispatchesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-68886868197115960312015-06-05T08:10:03.513-04:002015-06-05T08:10:03.513-04:00Interesting the link between Luke and John (and wa...Interesting the link between Luke and John (and was there a "pen" or a "fourth evangelist"? Or a community which produced the gospel more in the manner the medieval cathedrals were built: many hands making contributions, and impossible to credit one person with sole authority/responsibility? Anyway....).<br /><br />An interesting link because I haven't done the detailed analysis of Biblical scholars, but I did note (in seminary, so many times my professors began to comment on it) the link between the Lukan anointing story and the Johannine version (it's the only story, besides the Crucifixion, told in all 4 canonical gospels. You could look it up.....).<br /><br />And yeah, I've found more than once with on-line atheists that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing....to their presumptions. Scratch them, and they are all fundamentalists, convinced, as Neibuhr pointed out, that if the gospels aren't 100% accurate history and 100% the work of a single writer, then the whole thing is a scam and that "scandal," once understood, will bring down the entire edifice of belief.<br /><br />You'd think they'd never read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," or, conversely, they seem to think they're living in a Dan Brown novel.<br /><br />Either way, it's kinda funny.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com