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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english
Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 16:23:22 -0400 (EDT)
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Mike Van Pelt  <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:
>Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>There is a dramatic difference between people trained at the Yale School
>>of Divinity and the people trained at Hooterville Bible College.
>
>There's a pretty big gap between those two extremes.  There are
>plenty of "considerably more conservative than I am" churches
>that prefer New American Standard, or ESV, or NASB, but aren't
>dogmatic about which translation.

The most dramatic part of that gap is in dogmatism, I think. There are
schools which teach many different interpretations of the bible and 
some which teach one interpretation as being the only possible one.  

That's secondary to the schools which attempt to teach context and
those which do not.

I did some contract work for Bob Jones University and it was rather
alarming, not just culturally but in terms of the "my way of the highway"
interpretation of everything, hiding under the guise of "literal"
interpretation.
--scott

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