It was a joke. He goes for a literal reading (breath) when it suits his purposes, and he’ll weave something out of thin air and left field when it suits, completely contrary to scripture, like the permissibility of homosexual acts and the sanctity of gay marriage.
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There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth soon enough.
“any encounter with Scripture includes some process of sorting out what connects you with God versus what simply tells you about the morals of the times when it was written,” he told the magazine.”
Morals of the times. Dems get up with a new set of rules everyday.