| Description: | Because the "fundamentalist problem" is not rooted in religion, the answer can't be found in anti theism, the preferred response of commentators like Bill Maher, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. Rather, American Protestants must learn to read the Bible as a religious text rather than a series of logical premises to be proven. The irony of debates like the one between Bill Nye and Ken Ham is that they pit two fundamentalist readers against each other. The fundamentalist Christian and the atheist both read the Bible as a series of falsifiable propositions what Terry Eagletoncalls the"Yeti" theory of belief. Disproving the creation narrative should strike any theologian as absurd the way a literature professor would react if a student claimed to have "disproven" "Sons and Lovers."
Self contradictory Quranic verses Which one is correct? Quran 2:256: There is no Compulsion in religion. OR Quran 9:29: Fight those who do not profess the true faith (Islam) till they pay the polltax (jiz |