re: #186 The Ghost of a Flea

Of course you can’t. You opened a Bible without your pastor or a pastor-approved study guide (and/or possibly an audio or video read-along guide put out by one of the megachurches). And you’re probably not even using a Scofield Annotated version. This entire nutty form of “Christianity” has to do with extra-Biblical materials. Jesus and his parables don’t enter into it…all that niceness and forgiveness stuff is for the next world (this is really what dispensationalists believe).

I thought the parables were about the free market…

//My best insights about odd Christian interpretations come from Slacktivist, himself an evangelical, who has taught me the darndest things.

I am particularly fond of his “You just might be an evangelical” series, which includes: “If you take every word of the Bible literally, except for “wine” and “to seven churches in Asia”, you just might be an evangelical.”

I had to have it explained to me. But I did get “If you’ve ever played the tambourine while wearing a tie you just might be an evangelical,” without help.