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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 982833" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>Wow, wk.  I just watched Ehrman and while I admire his passion, to me he just doesn't get it.  He reminds me of a brilliant scientist who looks at the Mona Lisa and comments on the inferior quality of the paint.  He sees the elements but misses the compound.  He is tethered to the idea that the whole must be equal to the sum of it's parts and misses the "X" factor.  He misses what the reader, the congregant, the worshiper, the sinner brings to the experience.  There is a relationship and it is not one sided.  I almost feel sorry for Ehrman.  All that brilliance but an almost personal anger at religion.</p></blockquote><p></p>