[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest V1 #129
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<<Bush and some other Evangelicals are quite wealthy. It makes me wonder
how they reconcile wealth with the Bible's notion that a rich man will enter
heaven the way a camel goes through the eye of a needle, or words to that
effect. >>
I guess you haven't heard the Prosperity sermons rampant by TV Evangelists.
Julie Krueger
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She now thinks of fundamentalism as a negative and doesn't know how or
why that shifted. She now would be ashamed to be referred to as a
fundamentalist.
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My understanding of Evangelical Bible scholarship is that they will go
to any lengths to preserve examples of accurate "fortune-telling" in the
prophetic tradition.
Magic and miracles matter to them. Some have argued that Evangelicals
are, paradoxically, basic materialists at heart and so need these magic
miracles to show God and justify their faith.
A.A. Bush and some other Evangelicals are quite wealthy. It makes me
wonder how they reconcile wealth with the Bible's notion that a rich man will
enter heaven the way a camel goes through the eye of a needle, or words to
that
effect.
E.Y. To my limited understanding of the scholarly battles, the Evangelicals
need miracles and magic to justify their faith. There is an underlying
need to appeal to the superstitious miracle rather than to orthodox
textual criticism.
A.A. I do believe you are correct. I wonder if this underlaid the Bush
administration's flagrant disregard not only of common sense when invading a
country, but of the Army's repeated advice. And then to not have a plan.
Perhaps they thought God was going to provide.
Andy Amago
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