" But it doesn't blanket the entire world of Scriptural interpretation and scholarship.

Just because I can't make my way through a Calculus textbook does not diminish the textbook, nor the scholarship that went into it's printing. "

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Great rhetoric John. It would probably get cheers from a religious audience. It sounds much better than saying man's stupidity is the problem - not the word of god. And it is an excuse that works for some.

Indeed ignorance is no excuse. Yet it exists. Dwelling upon words such as Never and Always and All and other 'Blanket' statements does divide rather than unite understanding. The great hate of religion that you speak of is also a polemic divider. Yet it too exists.

Still if you really want to compare a math book with scripture one should consider that the math book does not impel people to give up understading and simply accept a mistake or; the illogical, absurd, misprint, trite and opioniated interpretations as truth that one must accept on faith.

I suppose what I hate (with a small h) is the western religious attempt to explain the "great unknowable" as a set of proposterous teachings that must be accepted on faith. Lose that faith and you are bad. Accept and pay for that faith and you are good.

As in the teachings of the venerable and wise Penn and Teller ;) , thats just bullshit.

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Uncle Dave , Aw comon, dragons don't look like dinosaurs to you ;)