Editor,
I am responding to the letter by Laura Bracht and Havah S. Johnson published in the Daily Lobo on Wednesday. I cannot say the authors of this letter are ignorant simply because they believe in the Bible, but I can point out something very ignorant in this letter.
They compare the Bible to the Iliad, saying that if the Bible were not full of miracles, it would be seen as literature much like the Iliad. First of all, the Bible is
respected as literature, and is taught in literature classes all over this country. Secondly, the Iliad is full of stories about gods entering human battles and using their immortal powers to change the course of history. The Iliad is fiction, and nobody is trying to tell anybody that it is truth or that we should abide by anything in it. Those of us who attack the Bible are simply attacking the idea that it is the truth. It is, like the Iliad, literature which takes place against the backdrop of history.
Shoshana Handel
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