"Nor would I have taken the approach I have apart from a conviction that -- if we are to love God with our "whole mind" as we approach difficult moral issues -- we have an obligation to expose ourselves to and attempt to understand viewpoints which are uncongenial, even painful to us." Surely that includes such "painful" viewpoints as: "Surely the other "major" hole is that Holben's work is based on the assumption that the Bible is indeed the word of God, when in fact any sane God would not actually have had anything to do with such alarmist scripture?" The assumption needn't be Holben's. |