Uh oh. Apparently, I’m told (and not for the first time)
biblical literalism is not healthy. Not healthy for those I would like to win
to Christ, and not healthy for me. It’s (at least potentially) repressive, and
possibly worse.
In it, Michael Gungor coins the term ‘huddle people’ to
describe me and my ilk, then gives us a lecture about the dangers of failing to
accommodate ‘science’ in our Christian worldview:
“... you can still love God and love people and read those
early Genesis stories as myth with some important things to teach us. Not all
of you will be ready to do that, and that’s perfectly ok. But know that if you
create these dichotomies where we force people to either fall into the camp of
scientifically blind biblical literalism or a camp where they totally write off
the Bible as a complete lie, you’re going to rob a lot of people of some of the
richness that the Bible offers. You’re going to create a lot more jaded,
cynical people that are completely anti-religion out there. And you are going
to continue to repress the questions that lurk in the back of your own mind.
And that’s just not healthy. That sort of thinking actually quashes and limits
human thriving in the world.”
— Michael Gungor