One thing that has become increasingly apparent to me is that people will quote mine a text to support their agenda. From using a single verse to justify hatred, or using a single verse to ridicule readers of the Bible, I wonder why is it okay to quote mine the Bible, yet if you were to do the same thing with a book citation in an essay, you would be soundly trounced for making yourself susceptible to pulling things out of context.
As with all literature and text, there usually is a unifying idea that is being conveyed in a passage. When you write an essay, quote citations usually are longer than one sentence. This makes sense as a person needs to understand the context of the text they are citing when they are trying to convey an idea. However, this seems absent for detractors and supporters of the Bible.
Why is it that quote mining is accepted with religious texts when this would never be accepted with any other piece of literature?
As with all literature and text, there usually is a unifying idea that is being conveyed in a passage. When you write an essay, quote citations usually are longer than one sentence. This makes sense as a person needs to understand the context of the text they are citing when they are trying to convey an idea. However, this seems absent for detractors and supporters of the Bible.
Why is it that quote mining is accepted with religious texts when this would never be accepted with any other piece of literature?