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Friday, January 25, 2008

A Child-Like Faith

This is yet another example of why Dr. James McGrath is one of my favorite bloggers.

A child-like faith, on the other hand, is not one that simply accepts everything - those who think it means that have presumably forgotten what it was like to be children. On the contrary, a child-like faith will be simple and honest, and blurt out that the emperor has no clothes on when all the adult adherents of Biblical inerrancy, or imperial clothedness, are quietly persisting in denial.
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