Fascinating . . .
My Navy buddy and I just came from the reportedly best Mexican restaurant in town.
There was an altar on the wall of the restaurant . . .
Very, very, very, VERY much like the Buddhist altars in most Restaurants in Taipei.
Only the Picture behind the flowers and candle was of Mary.
And the glass the candle was in had another image of Mary painted on it.
Of course, Y’all will likely insist that no worship was involved of the least bit of an idolatrous nature.
LOL.
I have no idea what your James Joyce comment means.
I actually have not observed ANY Bibliolatry hereon. There may have rarely been some on FR over the 10 years . . . but I recall very very very very little of that . . . manybe a KJV only character here and there . . .
The Scripture use on this thread and most threads is quite fitting, in it’s place, Biblical . . . nothing close to Bibliolatry involved.
And, believe me, or not, I know Bibliolatry from very close up personally and with other loved ones.
Methinks a very lopsided bias may be operating in that accusation.
I make no sense out of the “What insurance company do they use?” question.
I like to at least pretend that anything close to dialogue is likely not in vain.
***There was an altar on the wall of the restaurant . . .
Very, very, very, VERY much like the Buddhist altars in most Restaurants in Taipei.***
Long before the Jews wrote the OT, various other religions wrote their scripture in books or scrolls of various kinds. Therefore the practice of writing scripture and disseminating it is pagan, right?
Lost in the mists of time, the ancients developed the idea of priests or shamans that were schooled in their religions and taught the people about it. Therefore anyone learned in religion is pagan, right?
Thousands of years of civilization have seen the people of a religion give money to it. Therefore the idea of tithing is pagan, right?
***I have no idea what your James Joyce comment means.***
Maybe if you got out more. I believe that you claim that you are in some version of academe; I find it difficult to believe that an educated man is unaware of the contributions of James Joyce to the literary genre.
***And, believe me, or not, I know Bibliolatry from very close up personally and with other loved ones.***
I have doubt about it. The question is why you would defend it by defining it otherwise.
***I make no sense out of the “What insurance company do they use?” question.***
Again, an educated man ought to know the difference between the word ‘insure’ and the word ‘ensure’.
**I like to at least pretend that anything close to dialogue is likely not in vain.***
One of the tools of the great deceiver is despair.