Someone needs to put out an edition of the Bible that consists only of the sex and violence.

@DavidDvorkin
Hm...still quite a long document = about a third of the OT and, say, a twentieth of the New?

@greeneralia It would certainly be long. The OT not only has violent stories, which we are supposed to admire, but also religious admonitions that I would include for their violent attittudes and punishments.

@DavidDvorkin
Hmm - not sure even at the time we were meant to admire the violence -and eg Jezebel + the one who asked for the head of John the Baptist were meant to be horror stories?
Rather like the remark of a presumably apocryphal Victorian matron: "So unlike the home life of our own dear Queen", in response, say, to 'Titus Andronicus'?

@DavidDvorkin
Um, I am a Christian and no one has ever suggested to me that we are meant to admire these stories.
But you, an atheist, believe that we are.
Curious, no? 😅

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