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Dan Savage Savages the Bible, Christianity, and the Pope (Part II)

ReddestNeck Wrote: May 04, 2012 1:52 PM

Many a thing was not just condoned but ordained under Old Testament rule that eased or was abolished under the New Testament. And so what? The whole suffering earth is never presented by the bible to be a utopia, and never promised to evolve into a utopia. It's going to get catastrophically replaced in the end by a true utopia (heaven).

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Dan Savage Savages the Bible, Christianity, and the Pope (Part II)

If the Bible is “a radically pro-slavery document” (Dan Savage), how is it that Christians who successfully fought for the abolition of slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries based their opposition to slavery on that very same Bible? The answer is simple: The Bible is actually not “a radically pro-slavery document.”

According to Savage (following atheist Sam Harris), “the Bible got the easiest moral question that humanity has ever faced wrong. Slavery! What’re the odds that the Bible got something as complicated as human sexuality wrong? 100% percent.”

To be candid, it’s easy to see where Savage and Harris are...

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