Well, if the silly gal had bothered to listen to the lecture and heard the questions from the audience, something I would assume is beyond her attention span to have done, she might, might, notice that the people in the audience were not Jerry Falwell's kind of Baptists. They are considerably to the left of her and her fellow idiot atheists who were snarking about what I posted. Not to mention that Walter Brueggemann is a minister in the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal institutions in the United States, religious OR SECULAR.
Update: You'd think that the fact that the pastor is a woman would have been a slight clue as to the kind of Baptists were sponsoring the lecture.
Update: You'd think that the fact that the pastor is a woman would have been a slight clue as to the kind of Baptists were sponsoring the lecture.
Pearls before swine is, I think, the phrase you are looking for.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but I figured I needed some filler.
DeleteWhat's especially telling is that Brueggemann was critical of the UCC and other churches because they weren't radical enough on a consistent basis. You'll never hear that kind of internal criticism of atheism or other anti-religious entities.
There are arguments about who is atheist enough, or who is a "true atheist."
DeleteBut self-criticism? Never. It's always finger pointing.
And at the end of his talk, before the questions, he confesses that he falls short of his theme, himself. It was extraordinary, something which you seldom hear outside of a religious context.
DeleteNo True Baptist...
ReplyDeleteTo materialists of a bigoted stripe, every single person who believes in some kind of deity or spiritual component to reality is exactly the same. "Believers" are an incredibly diverse group, but prejudiced people jam us all into their little cartoon villain box.
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