On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Chuck Grimes wrote:
> But listen, you should have taken her advice. Read the Bible, daily. I
> try to. It is an amazing piece of cruel, pityless, imperialistic,
> racist, sexist, homophopic hate mongering.
>
> I would say, so far (up to Samuel 1) about the only remotely
> humanistic passage is the Book of Ruth, On the Thrashing Floor. Here
> is a passage from Anna Karenina which is something like the image I
> had in my mind when I read the tale of Ruth:
>
Are we defining the Bible as the Old Testament? "Imperialistic" isn't the first word that comes to mind when I think of the Sermon on the Mount. . .
Miles