[BRL]

Easy to defend if you have the intellectual honesty and imagination to try to look at the context of human existance when the various parts of scripture were written. People who try to judge history through 2016 lenses are dishonest mental midgets.

[Mr. Douglas]

Easy to defend if you have the intellectual honesty and imagination to try to look at the context of human existance when the various parts of scripture were written. People who try to judge history through 2016 lenses are dishonest mental midgets.

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That’s pretty much how I see it. There are people today that argue that Jesus turned water into grape juice. They apply no cultural context whatsoever to the event. They have a cartoonish, VBS perspective of civilization at that time.

[Crolis]

My wife is a history major and teacher and this is one of her chief complaints with the way history is taught today. You can’t view everything through a modern lens as it distorts the reality of the period you are studying.

Our founding fathers get dragged through the mud for some characteristic which today is considered bad. The flaws are emphasized while the historical gravity and importance are ignored.