Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「"My childhood was shaped by regularly returning to the Bible for direction on behavioral mores and manners," writes HuffPost guest writer Eve Ettinger. "Raise my voice in anger at my sibling? I would be told to go copy out all the verses from the concordance entry on 'anger' and to tell my parents what the sum total of the Bible’s teaching on the subject was."⁠ ⁠ "Everything went through this process ― the Bible serving as a meat grinder to pulverize and process my growing pains and evolving emotions," Ettinger continues. "I spent so many hours of childhood hunched over the open concordance on my bedroom floor, my knees red and my legs falling asleep as I read down each narrow column, searching for the verses my dad demanded, wishing I could be reading mystery novels instead."⁠ ⁠ "Every decision could be weighed against a literal interpretation of scripture," says Ettinger. "Homeschooling was a biblical mandate taken from Deuteronomy 4:1... This meant, my father said, that parents who allowed other people to educate their children were abdicating responsibility mandated by God."⁠ ⁠ "Every passage was up for grabs for this literalist interpretive agenda, no matter the context," Ettinger writes. "Psalms was not songs. Ecclesiastes was not poetry. Revelation was not metaphor. We believed there was nothing wrong with taking literature written for a vastly different audience in a different era with different cultural norms and applying it directly to contemporary culture and living."⁠ ⁠ "All of this history is brought to mind as I watched the coverage of the Amy Coney Barrett juridical confirmation hearings every day after I finished teaching," adds Ettinger. "The overwhelming sense I get as I watch these hearings is how bizarrely similar the originalist methods of reading the Constitution, which Barrett has stated she follows, are to the biblical literalist methods of approaching Scripture. Neither interpretive mode allows there to be room for growth in the community or society built around these documents."⁠ ⁠ Read her full essay at our link in bio. // 📷 Courtesy of Eve Ettinger」10月21日 7時12分