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Quotation of the Day for June 23, 2011



"The Bible can atheist any book under the table on some pages. It presumes faith in God, yet it also often gives voice to the most profound and menacing doubts about the security of that faith. The Bible is not a book of answers but a library of questions. How rare such places have become in a society addicted to quick fixes, executive summaries, and idiot's guides."

- Timothy Beal, from the essay The Bible Is Dead; Long Live the Bible. The essay is excerpted from his book The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book

[http://chronicle.com/article/The-Bible-Is-Dead-Long-Live/127099]

Submitted by: Thomas J. Newlin
May 5, 2011

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