It Is Written
26th October 2007
Read it. This isn’t intended as comedy but it’s pretty funny nevertheless.
He also realizes that his quest is inherently Protestant, even though he himself is an agnostic Jew. The idea that an individual could strip all the layers of interpretation away to attain a pristine and plain truth is the quintessence of Protestantism: it is, he openly acknowledges, DIY Bible. William Miller would have felt right at home with this mission, based as it is on the elementary Protestant principle of sola scriptura.
Which is why Protestants are inherently as dimwitted as Muslims.