There have been so many times, when someone starts going off on how the Bible is the best thing ever for values, etc, I want to ask them if they've read it. I suspect the answer is usually no.
(I've gone through Tanach. Still haven't managed to get through the gospels. one of these years...)
Cherry-picking the parts of the Bible you like and using it to brow-beat others is hypocritically arbitrary. While some people do believe the claim that every word of the Bible is equally divine and authoritative, I have yet to meet anyone who actually lives that way.
I think the "family values" crew may actually share a great deal of values in common with each other (they seem to understand what they mean when they use the label), but they'd do better not to claim it all came from the Bible. They should write their own manifesto, imo.
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(I've gone through Tanach. Still haven't managed to get through the gospels. one of these years...)
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Cherry-picking the parts of the Bible you like and using it to brow-beat others is hypocritically arbitrary. While some people do believe the claim that every word of the Bible is equally divine and authoritative, I have yet to meet anyone who actually lives that way.
I think the "family values" crew may actually share a great deal of values in common with each other (they seem to understand what they mean when they use the label), but they'd do better not to claim it all came from the Bible. They should write their own manifesto, imo.
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