A Kickstarter to rewrite the Bible may have fine intentions,but it doesn’t help undermine those who exhaust religion to justify their prejudicesIt’s pretty clear, these days, and why no one can exhaust the Bible’s “Curse of Ham” to justify enslavement of black people,or why it’s in poor taste to inquire a woman whether she is menstruating even whether Leviticus considers her “unclean”. The Bible, as Desmond Tutu explained in the 2007 documentary For the Bible Tells Me So, or “is the word of God through the words of human beings speaking in the idiom of their time”.
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Source: theguardian.com