tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post5089085154266712430..comments2024-02-19T10:15:55.380+00:00Comments on CAUTE — Making Footprints Not Blueprints: Gold, frankincense, myrrh, a teapot, some broken crockery and some old cabbage - assembling reminders for EpiphanyAndrew James Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693417061963197121noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post-21037416076197030232010-01-11T11:42:58.978+00:002010-01-11T11:42:58.978+00:00@Pluralist: No, it looks to me like a response to...@Pluralist: No, it looks to me like a response to both fundamentalists and new atheists. Fundamentalists take things literally and believe them; new Atheists take things literally and <em>dis</em>believe them.<br /><br />I'm all for creating new shared symbolism from old stories (I'm still pleased with my Palm Sunday address from last year). I think we need to give stories new meanings & symbolism, otherwise they get "set in stone".Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144051388547159240.post-51437588707246238102010-01-11T03:52:15.712+00:002010-01-11T03:52:15.712+00:00(NB: it's worth remembering here that if it is...(NB: it's worth remembering here that if it is clearly problematic to literalise the story and accept its veracity (and others) on this basis, it is also problematic to reject it on the same literal grounds).<br /><br />That's a nonsense, surely: that, so long as you make something mythical, it becomes something difficult to reject. There are lots of myths that are harmful. That's a kind of pro-conservative logic that simply isn't so.Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.com