I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
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I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
It is the task of theologians to establish the limits of justice and injustice regarding the intrinsic goodness or wickedness of an act; it is the task of the observer of public life to establish the relationships of political justice and injustice, that is, of what is useful or harmful to society.
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