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22 Mar 2023 Conversations with Tyler Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
“He was the most ahistorical figure, but the claim is — and it’s clearly believed by the people who are writing these texts, or constructing them, or stitching them together to form what today we think of as those books — for them, this is something awesome and holy, as the Quran is for Muslims.”
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…Well, Moses claims. [laughter] Sure. If you want to go that reductive, then Moses clearly, almost certainly, didn’t exist. He was the most ahistorical figure, but the claim is — and it’s clearly believed by the people who are writing these texts, or constructing them, or stitching them together to form what today we think of as those books — for them, this is something awesome and holy, as the Quran is for Muslims. It’s something that you approach with extreme care, extreme nervousness. To tamper with the Word of God is to tamper with God. You don’t want to do that because the Bible is full of examples of what happens to people who do that. In a way, it’s the molten heart of what Christians call the Old Testament. It’s literally the Word of God. Are there religious reasons why America is more pro-technology than Europe?…
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