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Why It's Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong (religiondispatches.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing this article. This is a good quote: "the opposite of not being literal is not that it’s not true. The opposite of literal is to be interpretive." Also, I'd never heard of mapping the stories in the gospels to observances in the liturgical year.

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