Article: Coming clean.(M.E.M.O)(Holy Cow: Does God Care About What We Eat? by Hope Egan and D. Thomas Lancaster)(Book Review)

COMIC W. C. Fields spoke for all of us when he said: "I have spent a lot of time searching through the Bible for loopholes." Literalists find loopholes by choosing which texts about which to be literal. Liberalists find them hermeneutically. In a new book--Holy Cow (First Fruits of Zion; www.ffoz.org)--Hope Egan and (though he is not mentioned on the cover) D. Thomas Lancaster look for loopholes. The subtitle is Does God Care About What We Eat?

Egan is a Jewish convert to what she calls "an entire subculture within Christianity that believes that the Hebrew Scriptures' instructions apply to believers in Jesus." The members of this subculture "believe that Jesus ...

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