Religious Apologetics
“Sacred texts are usually taken literally until secular sources prove them to be a scientific or ethical embarrassment. At that point religious leaders and apologists do one of three things:
- they have a new revelation or
- they reinterpret the old revelation as being an allegory, symbol, metaphor, or parable or
- they say the sacred text only applied to the past.
Whichever remedy they choose, it has the appearance of being an act of convenience, not conviction.”
— August Berkshire
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