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[quote=Anonymous]What churches need is to do is to stop hitting people over the head with a book that was written centuries ago.  Yes, the Bible is important.  Yes, we can learn a lot from it.  I personally believe the writings were divinely inspired.

BUT - I'm also smart enough to understand that any book needs to be read with an awareness of the time, place, customs, and political climate at the time of the writing.  We don't sell our daughters into slavery.  We don't stone people for adultery in our country.  We don't kill people for planting two different kinds of crops next to each other or for wearing clothing made from different types of material.  We don't cut off body parts for stealing.  Most of us eat shellfish and pork.

The Bible is full of beautiful metaphors, parables, and stories.  It is much more about people's responses to their experience with God than about God's response to us.  It needs to be read critically understanding that we don't live in that world anymore.   We have to remember that  it's been translated and re-translated hundreds of times.  The Catholic Church pretty much chose what made into the Bible and what didn't.  It's valuable.  It's important, but it was never supposed to be read like a rule book.  
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