The weakly Joyce is special this week. We learn that homosexuality is population control.
I can’t work with this material because it is so over the top. I just have nothing.
Of course, the ironic comment of the column is here:
Christian congregations just follow along. They have no idea the roots of the environmental beliefs are Gaia based. They do not know the difference between being conservative stewards that God?s Word tells us to practice and the worship of the creation drawn from the pagan religions.
Of course, what is most odd about this is that Christmas is largely a replacement for pagan holidays. Most of us who practice Christianity understand this in relation to how religions develop in society and understand the celebration of Christ’s birth isn’t important in terms of getting the day right as much as the point and can understand and accept the historical context. In Joyce’s view of the world, this would be called a contradiction.
OneMan has fun with this one too…
This all has to with a literal vs allegorical view of the Bible. Some (Joyce and many hard-core conservatives) view the Bible as literal — they feel everything in it, Word for Word, actually happened exactly as it’s been translated from Latin and Greek to Middle English to Modern English.
Then there’s the rest of us who understand it to be allegorical. We realize that in translating from the original text the biases of the translators and mores of the times of translation are reflected in the writing.
Some people just can’t handle thinking … thus everything must be black or white, on or off, true or false. Nothing in between. It’s all literal.