re room for metaphor in article bakerlj augustana edu bakerlj augustana edu lloyd baker writes what i want is a response giving me the pros and cons of metaphorical religious language could an atheist accept this view without giving up the foundamentals of what he believes in could an atheist accept a usage in which religious literature or tradition is viewed in a metaphorical way of course this is essentially what we do with homer or with other concepts such as fate luck free will however there remains the question of whether the religious literature of say christianity is a particularly good set of metaphors for the world today it s also entirely unclear and to me quite unlikely that one could take a contemporary religion like that and divorce the metaphoric potential from the literalism and absolutism it carries now in many cases jim perry perry dsinc com decision support inc matthews nc these are my opinions for a nominal fee they can be yours
