Establishmentarians and Originalist Sin 0
Chris Satullo argues that those who try to interpret the U. S. Constitution through the lens of a literal interpretation of Christian Bible ignore nuance, history, and context. Using some of the statements of Speaker of the House Mike Johnson as a starting point, he notes the following (emphasis added):
Yet, somehow, the Bible and the Constitution never seem to contradict what Mike was already fixing to do.
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The fundamentalist/originalist view that the text is inerrant and fixed in meaning – and that you have mastered that meaning – leads to some pitfalls.
Follow the link for a detailed and thoughtful parsing of pitfalls.
