In The Star, Monday
January 9 ("No need to politicise a biblical debate") Denzil Jones
says, without a hint of irony, "Let's practice religious tolerance and
adhere to true biblical prescripts".
What a lovely
double oxymoron! Firstly, the Bible (along with the Qur'an) is one
of the most religiously intolerant of documents!
Consider:
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me", death for adultery or even
collecting firewood on the Sabbath.
The New Testament
is not much better, what with "no man comes to the father but through
me", and exhortations to convert all nations.
Jesus had no
objection to slavery and the suppression of women, which decent people
consider abhorrent today.
Perhaps he means that we should only follow the biblical prescripts that we regard as morally true?
In that case it is not the bible that sets the standard, but the enlightened human conscience.
Which means we don't need the bible anyway.
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