a little something on the Salinger Mailing List

[David Casseres]

Mike Benedetti sez
>>... millions world-wide read from the Bible daily or weekly.
>>
>>Let's not get so caught up in our little liberal humanist worlds that we
>>forget about that crazy "reality" thing.

My, how utterly respectful toward other people's beliefs!

and then Greg Montalbano, *he* sez to Mike, he sez,
>Well, don't YOU get so caught up in your little crypto-fascist reationary
>"the-Lord-gave-me-two-strong-hands-so-I-could-grab-as-much-as-I-could-for-my
>self-with-both-of-them" captialist world that you forget that most people
>don't "read" the holly babble -- they consult it, like an oracle.

Now, let's us not all jerk our knees at once.

The Bible is one of the foremost literary treasures of our civilization, 
most particularly in the King James version.  My old man, an ironclad 
atheist, said if you needed evidence of the divine inspiration of the 
Bible, the fact that a committee of old men did the translation and it 
came out great poetry was pretty good.  I do think it's a damned shame 
that so many people strip-mine it for arguments to back up their very own 
political agendas, personal bigotries, etc. 


Cheers,
David