A Note About Comments

I recently had to delete a rambling post by a fundamentalist. I have no problem being challenged on anything I say here, and I'll gladly respond to a coherent reply, but I cannot abide rambling, ad hoc statements that atomize individual Biblical passages and rip them out of context, forcing them to mean whatever a person wants them to mean. It is amazing how often this takes place among evangelicals and fundamentalists. There are entire books written this way. Biblical passages must be contextualized, that is: they have to be presented within their written context, or they get stretched to meaninglessness.  Arguing with people when they do this is like arguing with someone who insists that a STOP sign really means 'go'.