Gimme That Old Feel Good Religion

Okie on the Lam is on the warpath over Jane Fonda and her declaration as a "Feminist Christian":

OK, she doesn’t believe that the Bible is the inspired holy text of God, it’s just a “metaphor”, and it takes the “gospels” that were never included in the first place to make her “feel” good about being a Christian . . . what’s wrong with this picture? Let’s see, if I think that Buddha was just some ol’ fat guy with a few catchy sayings, I can be a Buddhist? Or hey, if I think that Mohammad was just a crazy desert scribe thinking that he’s the lastest and greatest since Jesus so he wrote a new desert scripture; but hey, it’s tomorrow-land now so I can eat my pulled pork sandwiches, drink a case of beer and call myself a good Muslim? Nah . . . it doesn’t work that way. Now, times do change, and religions do have Reformations, thank God, but the core tennant of your belief has to be there, or it’s not truth. How can you believe in your faith if you don’t think it’s true?

Dale's en fuego on this issue, and he's absolutely right. Read the whole thing.