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| Salem Methodist, St. Louis |
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| Bonhomme Pres, St. Louis |
Well, it doesn't look like I'll have time to finish deconstructing Reza Aslan's new best-seller, Zealot. You get the picture, anyway. The house of cards was collapsing by the moment. Even if you lay the most solid granite on top, the structure will collapse from the weakness below. And the book does not improve in the final chapters . . . Aslan attacks Paul fervently, he creates a Manichean dichotomy between this pernicious thing called Christianity that Paul founded, and the likeable fanaticism of Jesus . . . Maybe he is recreating Jesus in his own image of Mohammed. I didn't feel the faintest tingle of a twitch of belief.
Early tomorrow morning, though, I'm hitting the road. Here's the schedule. Come if you can. I also welcome invitations -- for conversation, for talk, debate, lunch, dinner, a hike. This is going to be a long, long trip. Go, Big Oil! Bring me that sweet, cheap gasoline.
August 11 St Louis: Salem United Methodist, 9:30 AM, "Christianity and World Religions"
August 11 Chesterfield, MO: Bonhomme Presbyterian, 7 PM, "Jesus for Skeptics"
August 14 Marshall, MI: Marshall UMC, 7 PM (?), topic yet to be announced
August 18, Garfield Memorial UMC, Pepper Pike (Cleveland), Ohio: 9:30 AM sermon, plus Q and A afterwards
August 20, Kirk of the Hills Pres, Bloomfield Hills: 7 PM
August 28 (?) First Pres, Jackson, Wyoming (evening)
