The Bible-smasher
My family and I are currently reading through G. K. Chesterton’s The Poet and the Lunatics. It’s marvelous.
This description of one Amos Boon (in “The Shadow of the Shark”) made me laugh; it belongs up on the wall in a few seminaries:
“Anyhow, travelling about alone with nothing but a big Bible, he had learned to study it minutely, first for oracles and commandments, and afterwards for errors and contradictions; for the Bible-smasher is only the Bible-worshipper turned upside down.”
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