today's pet peeve:
Jul. 14th, 2012 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1I really hate people calling the Bible "the world's greatest instruction manual".
The Bible is many things – instruction manual it ain't. If you must compare it to a modern publishing genre to make a quasi-theological point, a better option would be "travel journal". (Which, yes, would be metaphorical. But not nearly so metaphorical as trying to claim that the Book of Joshua is a list of instructions for we the reader to follow.)
The Bible is many things – instruction manual it ain't. If you must compare it to a modern publishing genre to make a quasi-theological point, a better option would be "travel journal". (Which, yes, would be metaphorical. But not nearly so metaphorical as trying to claim that the Book of Joshua is a list of instructions for we the reader to follow.)
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Date: 2012-07-15 09:43 am (UTC)But not nearly so metaphorical as trying to claim that the Book of Joshua is a list of instructions for we the reader to follow.
Or Jonah! First disobey God, then get eaten by a whale...
Small Peculiar is doing a series of webcomics on Jonah at the moment. It's a lot of fun.