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[quote=Anonymous]13:15/13:20 again, to make a few things clear before I go (kids).

I am not a bible literalist. I recognize that much of the OT was written as metaphor and even for political reasons. That doesn't bother me, because I'm more concerned with the NT message. Even if I wasn't concerned with mainly the NT message, though, I wouldn't take one NYTimes article and attempt, like you do, to turn it into "gospel" about the OT (complete with your bizarre parsing of the Times' language).

I also know that there are good arguments against religion. By comparison to these good arguments, your amateur-hour points about 2000-year-old veils and your attempt to argue that Finkelstein has "not been refuted" (complete with bizarre twists of language!) look positively silly. However, debating these more difficult arguments requires a fairly subtle mind. I don't see much percentage in helping you identify these harder arguments, because although the subsequent debate might be interesting and enlightening to both of us with the right participants, I don't see that kind of debate happening here.[/quote]

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