14 August 2007

QotD for 14 Aug., 2007

A belief that man was made for the creeds and not the creeds for man is idolatry. I think a belief that one has access to the 'plain' meaning of scripture is arrogant, and not as much making a God of the Bible but of one's own interpretive abilities.

--- commenter "Harry" on Fr. Jake's blog

5 comments:

Wormwood's Doxy said...

Welcome back! Hope your vacation was good---and thanks for the birthday wishes. :-)

Also, thanks for your comments at Episcopal Majority. Great minds, and all that... ;-)

BTW---I'm not posting under my blog name there because I really don't want to draw the attention of people like Scott-plus (great tag, BTW!).

David said...

Well, ol' Scott really seems to self-consciously add that "+" to his name...

::cue Cartman::

"Respect mah authoritah!" ;)

Wormwood's Doxy said...

Yeah...he's a tosser, all right. Glad I'm not one of his parishioners...

David said...

No kiddin' Guys sounds as precious as ol' Matt Kennedy-plus, don't he ?

Dennis said...

I suggest that we all add something nice and pretentious after our names.

I think I'll try being Dennis. How about: Dennis! or Dennis^ or my favorite, Dennis®