What is your opinion of Sola Scriptura?

[Saor Alba]

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[Saor Alba]

Having been raised as a Catholic, and more importantly having lost an uncle to fundamentalist millenarian lunatics, I think sola scriptura as a concept is downright silly. Literalism is folly given that many Bible stories like the fables of Jesus or the prophet Jonah were understood even in their time to have been allegorical in nature. And confining theology solely to what is written in the Bible leaves no room for any of the theology to have come after it, like the influential works of Thomas Aquinas. The world would be far less bright for Christians if we burned on the pyre all possibility for deduction, evaluation, and reason on the premise that there can be no interpretation of the book but the book itself.

This is a strawman of what Sola Scriptura is. It is not a synonym for Biblical literalism and it does not render theology null.