“ The fundamentalists made two critical errors, but they’ve done a pretty good job of convincing millions of believers that they aren’t errors. By reading Genesis as literal rather than mythological, they have forced themselves to adopt a literalist hermeneutic that cannot be applied consistently, even to similar writings, throughout the Bible. […] Second, they failed to understand that Biblical authority does not emanate from a manuscript; it comes from the community that conveys authority on that text. ”
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