well Marty appears to arrogate to himself the title of ayatolla of the comment section, getting to decide what is relevant or not, whether people are running afoul of his idea of what ought to be discussed, although everyone can see that he himself veers from stated topics quite often when it pleases him. Does a pattern of hypocrisy begin to emerge? Does anyone really care what marty thinks? He called Kung self important, marty ought to know about that trait.
BTW, I think from his latest dodge, we can infer that Marty does not approve of modern biblical scholarship for the same reason that he does not believe in climate change or evolution, to wit, that modernity frightens him.