December 16, 2005
Inerrancy
We not only have to face this Christmas without Christ, we’re stuck with a Bible we can no longer trust, as well.
After a couple millennia more or less, the Vatican has recently announced that we can no longer expect “total accuracy” from the Bible, that some parts of it are just plain not true. To help spread the word, the hierarchy has published a teaching document instructing the faithful to cool it on biblical inerrancy.
Even though this press release from the TimesOnLine was not specific as to which parts of the Bible are no longer considered dependable, the news still sent a shudder through those for whom scriptural consultative services like www.TheBibleSays.com have proven so valuable and beyond question in the past.
The rest of us, however, can relax and hope Rome will also dispense with some of the infallibles (cf divorce, usury, slavery) we’ve ignored forever and would rather not keep, anyway. Perhaps the Religious-Always-Right will be forced to turn to the Constitution, after all.
On the other hand, first thing you know, maybe here’ll come Galileo, Copernicus, and Darwin at the front of the canonization line expecting sainthood, the quantum mechanics, wrenches in hand, not far behind.