Kevin Phillips: Confused About the Bible

April 30, 2006

You may have seen that Kevin Phillips wrote an opinion piece carried by the Washington Post on April 2.  (See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/01/AR2006040100004.html)  I took the opportunity to write a letter the editor.

Phillips says so many things worthy of reply, it was difficult to narrow my comments to one or two issues and keep them sufficiently brief. Because Phillips is perceived, in political circles, as someone who really understands Christians, I wanted to focus on certain apparent, gross misconceptions about the Bible. I chose to focus, in particular, on what the Bible has to say about the relationship between God and man and God and nations. If my letter were a longer treatment, I would have spent time addressing many of the apparent presuppositions underlying his views of science, knowledge, etc.

Read the text of my letter