Yea, but that's like attributing, "To everything there is a season" to David Crosby, rather than Leviticus 27:3. Just cause they said it don't mean they created it. And this is still true even if you like the Byrds better than the Bible.
<sigh>
So what if it is in the bible ? Big deal!
Style matters, and indeed the proper application of the concept, to changing circumstances, knowledge and facts as humanity progresses.
The mere fact that: "it is in the bible", means NOTHING.
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"...the proof of an idea is not to be sought in the soundness of the man fathering it, but in the soundness of the idea itself. One asks of a pudding, not if the cook who offers it is a good woman, but if
the pudding itself is good."
H. L. Mencken.
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More Mencken.....
"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind--that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."
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"It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism." |
