On an Economist site, the blogger known as DIA bemoans what happens to an Alabama politician who dares question the possibility that every single word in the Bible might not be true. DIA wrote:
"EVERY politician says something he has to walk back once in a while.
In the case of Bradley Byrne, a Republican candidate for governor of
Alabama, it was
I think there are parts of the Bible that are meant to be literally true and parts that are not.
Mr
Byrne was battered by so much criticism that he quickly trudged to a
Piggly Wiggly grocery store to hold a press conference and recant.
Claiming he had been misquoted, he said
I believe the Bible is true. Every word of it.
Mr
Byrne's momentary hesitation about the literal truth of every word of
the Bible makes him the religious hippie in the Republican field."
A good line, but even better, everyone agrees is the Twain-ian commentator Heimdall:
I also believe that every word of the Bible is true, taken
individually. It's the way in which they're put together that has me
scratching my head..
h/t: Andrew Sullivan
Kit Stolz 