The Maturing Opinion of Jerome

10-30-2013

[dsc]

“Truth, or hyperbole?”

The hyperbole only supports the truth. And, as it is obvious hyperbole, it is clearly not intended to decieve.

[Alex Murphy]

“So the mods have denied your accusations and you still make them?”

You don’t find it the least bit odd that they would delete those accusations?

Does anybody else smell ozone right now?

[dsc]

“So the mods have denied your accusations and you still make them?”
“You don’t find it the least bit odd that they would delete those accusations?”

Oh, you wrote “denied.” Dang my failing eyes, I misread it as “deleted.”

To answer the question you asked, I find their denials to be very similar to something I used to hear in Jim Crow Oklahoma: “I ain’t prejudiced; n*ggers really is inferior.”

It may be, unlikely as it seems to me, that the moderators really do think they’re being even-handed. Anything is possible.

Back in the eighties lots of people thought the media were at least trying to be even-handed. Many leftists in the media are still unable to see the beams in their own eyes.

All that notwithstanding, the media are biased and so are the religion moderators, whether they are able to see it in themselves or not.

[dsc]

“Does anybody else smell ozone right now?”

Really? The moderators are so sensitive to criticism that they don’t allow it?

[dsc]

144 should have been to you.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ Even in discussions about Jerome apparently changing his mind about the canon, there is no mention of the prefaces to Judith and to Tobit. None! How is that possible?” <<

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Seriously, who, having a grip on their senses, gives a hoot about Judith or Tobit?
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[dangus]

It’s not the significance of the biblical book, but the fact that Jerome states, unambiguously, that he is obeying the practice of the Christians of his day by including them. In the case of Judith, he cites the Council of Nicea, which included a consensus of the bishops from the entire Roman world, as why he must include Judith.