Thursday, January 10, 2008

Is Chris Masse much less predictive than prediction markets and the Bible?

I say Yes:
the wonderful-but-overexuberant Chris Masse wrote:

TRANSLATION: Hillary Clinton is finished. Done with.

This is the same Chris who, based on prediction markets, wrote in November that:

The next US president is Hillary Clinton. Period.

and Yes:

As far as the cultural costs to reading the Bible, how should we explain the positive correlation of Bible reading to wealth and rights? For instance, the Magna Carta, the Reformation, the Scottish Enlightenment, the American Revolution.

I’m not sure you can find any verses actually advocating any of the issues you mention, except for the use of alcohol. This appears to be irresponsible, illogical, unscientific, and undisciplined exegesis to me.

The readers and interpreters of the Bible get it wrong a lot of the time. But then again, not even prediction markets are perfect.

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