Fragment -- #88

[March 1999 journal entry]

Re a ‘non-religious’ reading/interpretation of Christian scripture, I see the apostle Paul as ultimately/very ‘religious’ in that

1. he built on his received ‘religious’ T/O paradigm re ‘God’, experience, and history,
   
2. his methodology was not in any way historical or scientific,
   
3. he did not seriously consider ‘innocent’ suffering (other than ‘religious’ persecution),
   
4. he argued for ‘proportionality’ (i.e., things balance out in an after-life if not in this life),
   
5. he separated ‘wisdom’ from indiscriminate ‘face to face’ consideration of human experience,
6. he expected an imminent end of the world,
7. he had no place for doubt,
8. . . . .