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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, not just a problem with modern Christians, if you read 'Daemonology' by James the 1st (of England, 6th of Scotland and the one who wrote/edited the King James bible version) he took it quite literally too.

I'm still not sure if it's a case of 'wilful ignorance' of the bits they don't like, or a 'Forest Gump' "stupid is as stupid does" - probably both, with a sprinkling of grifters thrown in.

it's available at Gutenberg.org if you're interested; it's, um, an interesting take...

He wrote it as a response to the "proliferation" of witches in England - so with no agenda at all! /s

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

You're correct that bad interpretations aren't strictly a modern problem. There are, however, problems with interpretation that are distinctly modern (as in the last 200'ish years of church history). Modern Christian eschatology, aka "end times theology", falls distinctly into those modern interpretation problems.

That isn't too say previous generations of church history had it on lock, they just had different factors screwing with the perspectives.

A lot of all these issues comes down to antisemitism, which has been a dominant factor for Christian theology for most of its post-Constantine history.

The goal with literary scholarship is always to understand the authorial worldview and intent, something many church writers explicitly rejected for millennia.