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Old 01-08-2007, 12:29 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Nice quote tropicality. It always makes me laugh when people derive their morals from the Bible. Here's John Hartung's take on the Bible.

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The Bible is a blueprint of in-group morality, complete with instructions for genocide, enslavement of out-groups, and world domination. But the Bible is not evil by virtue of its objectives or even its glorification of murder, cruelty, and rape. Many ancient works do that - The Iliad, the Icelandic Sagas, the tales of the ancient Syrians and the inscriptions of the ancient Mayans, for example. But no one is selling the Iliad as a foundation for morality. Therein lies the problem. The Bible is sold, and brought, as a guide to how people should live their lives. And it is, by far, the world's all-time best seller.
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