Subject: Re: Prayers For Our President
so why wouldn't scholaraly work be expected to improve, elucidate and illuminate the document, or really the set of documents which are the bible?

Improve on "the word of god?" -- Son, that's blasphemy; fightin' words (*wink*).

Speaking of elucidating and illuminating... what's up with speaking in tongues and playing with rattlesnakes at church?