I’ve not posted much on this lately, but I review what is happening to the “Adam and Eve” controversy within conservative American Christianity as a few voices (e.g., Biologos) keep raising the idea that “evolution” is ok with God, etc.

There is a slow simmer going on in the Evangelical community, with the more “conservative” (read hard-core orthodoxy) ones fuming at the idea that a literal creationist reading of the Bible is in error.

Charges of bibliolatry (though that word is rarely used except by Catholics when discussing the conservative Protestants) flow one way, and charges of “poisoning” of the faith flowing the other way.

Bottom line is this: Magick Book has no more magick, and this is really bothering some people. I think I’m starting to side with the Catholics on this one, that the real problem with conservative (and more accurately, atavistic) Protestantism is indeed bibliolatry. It’s at the core of their belief system and many of their consternations flow from it.

Now that modern science has shown that many of the claims of the Bible, if taken literally anyway, are false there is little for the Bibliolaters to do but bury their heads in verbal plenary sand dunes.

American society is changing as time goes on, and the fundamentalist literalist churches are going to have an even harder time getting along with the rest of our society as it changes.

This angst has gone on for some time, and I can see it carrying on for several more decades.