Taking things too literally??

[diegoliger]

On the Mamod Steam Railway forums an online friend and I, who is a Quaker, have been the butt of, well, attacks or at least very rude posts from a Biblical Literalist Born Again type. A thread about what people were doing at Christmas came up.So I said what Id be doing and also posted that I always feel a bit uneasy singing "Aye Lord we great thee

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[eriathwen_bob]

Carols are clearly the best tunes still sung in churches. It's nice that even in the horrible happy clappy bind-us-together-lord world, I can still get to hear the Coventry Carol sung on the med school steps... :D

[diegoliger]

OH yeah. I second both or your sentiments. I still prefer Common Worship, however. The thing that gets me is that the Census described in the NT is about right, but in a Roman census only the very well off had to travel to their nearest town to register thier property (land and slaves).

My superintendent is of the mind that the whole Nativity Story isa "Creation Myth" - Herod killing the first born and the flight and then the return from Egypt mirroring Exodus. The journey to Bethlehem being a literary device inserted to get Jesus born in the right place and that Isiah isnt predicting Jesus at all.

[diegoliger]

Yeah. Hes a lovely guy, deeply spiritual and liberal and opening but too shy and concerned of what others think to preach what he believes. Also very much into his railways, steam trains,wine and music. We get on very well. He's also a bit of my champion when going gets tough with the LP meeting and them demanding I leave the Unitarian Christian Association.