Saturday, October 07, 2006

Look what I found (I)

I love this blogger's take on the armor of God passage in Ephesians 6. But I especially want to draw your attention to the following "comment" attached to the post, where th blogger imagines an organization called "The Christian Campaign for the Abolition of Poetry":
CCAP has been highly active in evangelical circles for centuries, strongly deprecating any attempt to relate to Scripture other than as a series of propositional statements to be understood solely in rational, propositional terms. Hence (in the eyes of CCAP) a passage like Ephesians 6 needs to be taken apart, not because we want to understand and appreciate its poetry better, but because we want to remove any hint of poetry from it and understand it solely as a set of (mainly legal) propositions that we can then implement in our lives in a bullet-point fashion.

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