Even Richard Dawkins agrees. In The God Delusion, he says that "the English Bible needs to be a part of our education," because it "includes passages of outstanding literary merit" and is "a major source of our literary culture. " He even provides nearly two pages of "biblical, or Bible-inspired, phrases and sentences that occur commonly in literary or conversational English. "
I wonder if either gentleman is writing about the poetical bible, or the bland version that religious authorities use these days?
ReplyDeleteIn the name of God, Maxine, let us hope they writing about either the Authorized Version or the Douay-Rheims.
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