On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Mia McDavid wrote: > Philip Hart wrote: > > > > >And as far as I understand (elements of) Christianity only recently came > >to the view that 0) Xians should have a personal unintermediated > >interaction with the text 1) in a particular language 2) in a literalist > >way. > > > > > Ummm, no, no, and no. [snippage] Umm, actually you agree, mostly agree (and really ought to fully agree), and mostly agree. HTH.