{"id":166,"date":"2009-04-08T03:08:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T08:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-04-08T03:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T08:08:53","slug":"christian-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Christian Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a friend the other day and some how we started talking about Star Wars. My friend told me that he didn\u2019t like the Prequel Trilogy. I couldn\u2019t believe it. Who does he think he is? Has he studied the Prequel Trilogy? Does he have a degree in it? What scholarship has he read about it? He couldn\u2019t even name one Star Wars scholar and yet he has already formed an opinion about the Prequels.<\/p>\n<p>While I do take my Star Wars very seriously and I do love the entire Star Wars Saga (episodes I-VI) that is not what today\u2019s blog is actually about. Because as much as I love the Star Wars Saga (sometimes even dogmatically) I am aware that it is fiction. Even though I can\u2019t really prove that Darth Vader never really lived a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I am still reasonably certain that it is fiction. I don\u2019t need to study the latest Star Wars scholarship to know that. Nor do I need to have a degree in Star Wars-ology.<\/p>\n<p>However, many Christians seem to think that just because they can create universities, seminaries, and even museums devoted to the study of their fictional book that this some how makes their fictional book less fictional. Someone can study the Bible intensely for an entire lifetime and that still wouldn\u2019t make it any less fictional. Sure, an intense study of the Bible may yield some interesting insights and perhaps even a little wisdom here and there as well, just like an intense study of the Star Wars Saga would. I will say that there is probably much more insight and wisdom in the \u201cHoly Saga\u201d than there is in the \u201cHoly Bible,\u201d but that is another debate for another day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=166\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was talking to a friend the other day and some how we started talking about Star Wars. 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