Question Anything You Hear When Someone Says “The Bible Says It”
How much longer do we have to pretend that it matters when we hear people justify their prejudices by claiming: “The Bible says”? It’s such an easy excuse for sanctifying any position, that people who’ve never even opened the Bible use it. It’s saying something like: “The books in the library say,” for the Bible is historically a collection of stories composed by different authors from different cultures in three different languages written over thousands of years. Yet the claim is commonly brandished about and indicates that the person who touts it has already decided what the whole collection must say. There are religious assumptions, of course, to justify doing this. There are those who believe that their god was the author of all of those books, and therefore they must somehow - no matter how hard it is to make the variety of its claims sync - make it all agree. It’s why no one takes all of what’s there literally . They instead come up with some inventive methods to interpret passa...