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I attended theological college in the 1970s- where I was taught that the old testament is unhistorical, the gospels utterly unreliable, the sayings of Jesus plagiarised  and the whole Bible (though it wasn't put that way) a crazy patchwork of lies and forgeries.  I was then expected to go out and preach from it as if I believed it was the Word of God.

It did my head in. 

When I became a witch I made a virtue out of there being no such thing as a Wiccan scripture.  

Date: 2011-06-21 03:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisytells.livejournal.com
What kind of "theological" college would teach its students that the scriptures are lies? Just asking...

Date: 2011-06-21 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daisytells.livejournal.com
And then, also asking its students to teach those alleged "lies" to their future flocks?
No wonder religion has fallen upon bad times!

Date: 2011-06-21 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
One of the most prestigious theological colleges in England.

Date: 2011-06-21 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com
They didn't call them "lies" of course. They had ways of disguising the truth of the situation from themselves.

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