Wednesday, August 11, 2010  Tina! Bring me the ax!  Apostate
Paul Tobin has attempted to cobble together yet another reply to
me. He’s evidently frustrated by my previous reply. And I
understand why. Here he’s spent countless hours constructing
elaborate strawmen, then sat back to bask in the warm glow after
he set them on fire. Then here I come along and douse his
effigies.  If only Christians could be more accommodating.
Volunteer to stick our neck in the guillotine of the infidel.
But unfortunately, we’re too obstreperous to conform to the
needs of our executioners.  Before we get specific, we need to
address some preliminary issues:  I. All is Yellow to the
Jaundiced Eye  Given the fact that Scripture is a collection of
documents which were written between the 2nd millennium BC and
the 1C AD, we’d expect to encounter numerous obscurities and
complexities at this distance from the events. What’s striking
is not that we run across so many difficulties, but that we run
across so few–comparatively speaking. W