User talk:SouthWriter/sandbox/An atheist's objections/@comment-1777104-20100809220847

Zack, you are astute to observe that a Christian pastor, espousing a view that the Bible is only meant to teach spiritual truth, is doing Christianity harm. Unfortunately, such is the case among Christian teachers more and more these days. These men, and an occasional woman, raise their own reasoning power above the Word of the God of the universe. The contest isn't even close!

I realize that Dan Brown was, and is, writing fiction, he claimed to base the Di Vinci Code on the same research that Brocklehurst had to go on. I am glad that Brocklehurst at least seems to have had intellectual honesty in writing his book. Brown, in order to "hook" his reader, claims that his fiction is "based on truth." Speculation is very far from the truth, and should never be confused with it.