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How not to read Scripture

Posted By Eric Sammons On May 25, 2009 @ 10:50 am In Scripture | Comments Disabled

My previous post ^[1] quoted Pope Benedict on how to read Scripture properly. If you want to know how not to read Scripture, follow the lead of that great Scripture scholar Donald Rumsfeld:

Scripture reportedly prefaced Donald Rumsfeld-approved intelligence reports ^[2]

One passage plucked from the New Testament’s Epistle to the Ephesians instructs believers to “put on the full armor of God.” An excerpt from the Old Testament’s Isaiah directs them to “open the gates that the righteous nation may enter.”

As American soldiers fought in Iraq in 2003, these biblical verses and others reportedly prefaced intelligence reports approved by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

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[2] Scripture reportedly prefaced Donald Rumsfeld-approved intelligence reports : http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_05_24_Scripture_reportedly_prefaced_Donald_Rumsfeld-approved_intelligence_reports/

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