US row over Congressman Todd Akin's rape remark

[AMonger]

Decaf.7890

 

[layoutshooter]

it may be time to close this thread. It has gone down the tubes.

 

[Turtle]

it may be time to close this thread. It has gone down the tubes.

Thank you for saying "close" rather than "abort".

 

[Dreamer]

Yeah, we're done here...


Dale

 

[Turtle]

The Bible, in addition to being scripture, is also literature, and as such, it makes use of literary devices such as metaphor, hyperbole, poetry, parable, various figures of speech, etc.

The problem with that is the ease in which it can be literal scripture, or figures of speech, all depending on what you want it to be to help make your point. I've seen the same exact section be called literal scripture, and a literary device, depending on how one wants to interpret it and whether or not such interpretation bolsters the argument being made. In other words, it becomes far too easy to turn literal scripture into something else (a) if you need it to be something else, and/or (b) if don't agree with it. That's incredibly convenient.