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To: TaraP
religious figures everywhere to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical,...

According to Merriam-Webster: metaphorical is -
1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them.

I would like to know exactly what other aberrant behavior he is talking about.

23 posted on 04/08/2009 10:58:04 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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25 posted on 04/08/2009 11:00:42 AM PDT by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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To: ladtx

Like I’ve said elsewhere,

liberal “Christians” must discount the Word of God
and not treat it as authoritative,

because there is no way to justify liberal ideology
against the Word.


27 posted on 04/08/2009 11:02:04 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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