JESUS: A LIKELY STORY
It is nigh impossible to be rational with a man who embraces a faith. Hence, the works of so-called biblical scholars are too often ignored by the masses of the faithful. The non-believers don't care enough to bother with reading them, while the believers scoff at them, especially if the scholarship fails to toe the line with their adopted creed.
The most effective way by far to wield any sort of influence on a believer is to appeal to their primary source document, the Bible. And when you cite it, do so without too many references to outside commentators or other expositors.
The fundamentalist, the most hopeless species of believer, usually prefers his scripture at face value. This is exactly what I have attempted to do with Jesus, A Likely Story. Not a lot of scholarship here. No way. I took the words right from the page and appraised them for what they were literally worth. A biblical "scholar" might say that I subjected the gospel to what they like to call a "critical" reading. But I would never want to use such a phrase while dealing with a fundy.
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