Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Proof That Bats Are Birds


A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.

BBC News

Wouldn't you know it? No sooner do I go and write a post like this wherein I question the magical above the world objective description of nature and law status of the Bible, then this happens.

I had believed in the truth of the Bible, but it was only in a way in which I understood the truth of the relation of God to the world in Jesus. That way made me unsuitable to teach private Christian high school Bible (read Dispensationalist Theology) classes. It's a way that made that previous post possible. Clearly that's no good. There is something about a woman and an animal getting it on that violates an objective natural law and deserves death. Even if it was the camel's idea. This is a reminder, it's not just that we find something morally reprehensible; we don't simply say, "We just don't do that," and so punish it. What we see is that what we should find morally reprehensible is a reflection of some cosmic "should." Morality is exactly like gravity. Of course now, the camel needs to be killed. Then, everything will be as it should.

My way of understanding the Bible is true is lame- I'm sorry, my old way of understanding the Bible is true is lame. It's not truth; it's a catalogue of facts.

We should look forward to more of the following:

A teenage couple having sex for the first time were interrupted when candles set fire to the girl's attic bedroom and forced them to flee naked from her parents' house...

Reuters

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