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The Bible is Bad
“The Bible is a homophobic, racist, misogynist, violent document that suppresses minorities.” Statements such as this are often insisted upon by adversaries of Christianity. Attacks against the Bible sometimes begin with such generalities. When public university students confronted me with assumed grievances against Scripture, I would respond with three questions.
One, have you read the Bible within the context of the time it was written? Two, can you give me examples from your study of the Bible that would give evidence of what you claim? And three, by what standard do you evaluate ethics from the Bible or anything else?
My questions were always greeted with silence; students had not thought to honestly assess the Bible.