Religious fundamentalists and many of today’s atheists share the same approach to texts. They read them directly and literally,


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Religious fundamentalists and many of today’s atheists share the same approach to texts. They read them directly and literally, ignoring the single most important fact about a sacred text, namely that its meaning is not self-evident. It has a history and it has to be interpreted.