[CondoleezzaProtege]

We’re talking about literary worth not general ideas or moral instruction. For your information, no one denies the King James Bible as a standard of English Prose and Nietzsche in the original German is one of the great aphorists.

And that's just my point. To some people the substance, meaning, and content outweigh whatever merits the prose may have. I would rather entrust my imagination to an author who will open me up to a worldview grounded in deep, Biblical truth than one who is communicating a bunch of self-indulgent, twisted nonsense.

[Borges]

I would rather entrust my imagination to an author who will open me up to a worldview grounded in deep, Biblical truth than one who is communicating a bunch of self-indulgent, twisted nonsense.

Where does that leave William S. Burroughs?? /sarc

[the long march]

I guess you don’t read much then. Anything from Greece or Rome or even the Bible. Those truths you speak so highly of come from the very stories and directions that the Bible contains and yet the stories themselves are not necessarily masterpieces ( oh some are by all means but not all).

At least I know that you protect yourself from anything that is perceived by you as eveil and bad.

As I recall folks used to burn books they didn’t agree with.

Don’t bother to respond. I will no longer attempt to discuss with you anything of substance. I would not want to try you brain