What I learned from Bible Studies was that Ezekiel needed to stay away from mushrooms.
I mean, I took a “Bible as Literature” class that serves that purpose well, but I don’t think that’s for everybody. It was a pretty advanced literature elective. And Christian extremists protest those classes because they don’t treat the bible as absolute truth.
So did John of Patmos.
they don’t want the historical context or the ongoing debate about biblical meaning (you know, actual theology) to be taught, because that would disrupt their truth-claims.
… at some point they’ll call Dante and Milton the Third Testament and print it with the others 
People get that way. Stuck on a Greek island. Waiting for the ferry. That constantly fails to appear. Sitting in the little café by the harbour. The one with the cheap kykeon.
Not a haiku, but maybe a cousin?
A couple of my college classes were kind of like that, too.
My favorite was kind of a survey of a lot of sources: epic of Gilgamesh, code of Hammurabi, Exodus, I’m sure there were more but those are the ones that stuck with me. It was a great class.
My thesis (we were allowed a lot of leeway) was about the use of scents in various religious/cultural rites through time.
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