Copan, Stark, and the Goodness of YHWH

You can only evade for so long the importance of a direct command to kill civilians, even if it was the done thing back in the day.  It’s generally agreed, with good reason, that this is not the best humans can be, and if Yahweh thinks differently, if he even thinks that’s good hyperbole (exaggeration for effect), there’s no room for him in our counsels.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer

Gadamer's aim was to describe how all of us read, all the time. Every text, from Star Wars to scriptures to poems to television shows, is generated in a context where author and audience share certain common fields of meaning.

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