today's pet peeve:
I really hate people calling the Bible "the world's greatest instruction manual".
The Bible is many things - instruction manual it ain't. If you must compare it to a modern publishing genre to make a quasi-theological point, a better option would be "travel journal". (Which, yes, would be metaphorical. But not nearly so metaphorical as trying to claim that the Book of Joshua is a list of instructions for we the reader to follow.)
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The Bible is many things - instruction manual it ain't. If you must compare it to a modern publishing genre to make a quasi-theological point, a better option would be "travel journal". (Which, yes, would be metaphorical. But not nearly so metaphorical as trying to claim that the Book of Joshua is a list of instructions for we the reader to follow.)
The conversation's happening over at Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment there using OpenID. (
comments so far)