[Bananafish] Biblical Fiction

[James Rovira]

Bijan: You're kidding yourself if you think any of your questions are
all that new :).  I believe that you do run in to people for whom they
are new -- but these are just unread people.  And your point is?
There are unread, ignorant people of all beliefs, even yours...

Jim

On 5/26/06, BIJAN BAYNE <bijanc at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Jim (and others)- I think you're giving grassroots American believers a lot
> of credit- there are more non-evangelicals and non-fundamentalists who
> assume Moses wrote the Pentateuch than one might think w/o asking. Moreover,
> most churchgouers I ask get stopped in their tracks when asked "...Which
> creation story in Genesis, there are two?", "How did Cain and Abel
> multiply?", or "did you know Great Floods and virgin births exist in other,
> earlier traditions?"
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> These are collegians, not Holy Rollers, of whom I'm asking these things.
> Same type of educated, suit-and-necktie gig, 9-to-5 folk I see reading "Da
> Vinci" on the subway and in airports. (it may be their lack of previous
> questioning, cathechism notwithstanding, that makes the novel particularly
> attractive to them, whereas I've seen best sellers that debunk everything
> from Hitler's Fuhrerbunker suicide to the Biblical accounts of The
> Crucifixion to Oswald acting alone since my teens. My disagreement is not
> with believers as much as it is who say, "Almost no American Christians in
> 2006 really think that... do they BCB?"
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> BCB