Steve, I don't particularly care what your opinion of Bob Dylan is. It doesn't matter. You just enjoy whatever music you like, and I'll do the same.

I'm also puzzed that you seem to be answering some of your own past statements in my post (ones that I put in quotes)...and thinking you're responding to something I said, when it's not something I said, but something you said to ME in the first place.

The ancient writings we are both fascinated by, Steve, may have sometimes been divinely inspired. For you to assert that they are "hooey" is merely to make yourself the dogmatic extremist, not me, because you are the one claiming certainty of a matter you cannot BE certain about on the basis of any evidence one way or the other. Actually, Steve, you're making a faith-based statement when you say it is hooey to imagine anything can be divinely inspired. Your faith is the hardbound assumption that there cannot be any divine involvement in the Universe. You want it to be that way, so that's what you adamantly believe...and that's blind faith, mate! It's faith in saying "no" to a given unproved and unprovable proposition.