And they constitute a list of very serious questions for all thoughtful persons concerned about the future of our lives together on planet earth. Should we turn to the Bible for answers? Those saying yes, from Waco to Washington, including all the recent pronouncements to that effect by Protestant churches, cannot be right. The surreptitious function of the Bible as America’s epic mythology is causing as many problems as it is solving. We cannot go on “destroying them in order to save them,”
