>The question was about literary value, as the cite you refered me to claimed.
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>Here's a passage from Moby Dick:
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>"So Jonah's captain prepares to test the length of Jonah's purse, ere he judge him openly. He charges him thrice the usual sum; and it's assented to. Then the Captian knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold. Yet when Jonah opens his purse, prudent suspicions still molest the Captain. He rings every coin to find a counterfeit. Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah is put down for his passage."
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>Compare this to the Bible, which relates the same passage above in the following way:
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>"so he paid the fare, and went down into it."
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Myopic. You are picking one little piece of the Bible. Taken as a whole, it is a living document, rich with history, science, and literature.


>So you've read the original Biblical text?
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If I had read the text, I wouldn't know what I've read. Many scholars have studied the text and the consensus is that Murder is the better translation.

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>>So you have a better system in mind?
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>Yes, instead of a moral code of our behavior we adopt a method by which we decide how to behave, the method of the critical rationalist.

Like Hitler's thintank maybe? It was rational to them to kill anyone who wasn't an Aryan brother, even though he didn't fit the mold. It seemed so rational to have that "groupthink." Sort of like the democrats in the last election where they just KNEW Kerry was going to win, and when he didn't, all of us in the flyover states were just stupid. No, I think the laws that have been laid down work fine. We just need better enforcement of them.