The right hides behind a fictional Bible [View all]
Memo to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — your favorite book is made up
"The Art of the Deal" might be real but historians think less of the Bible's veracity. Let's not live by it in 2015
Donald Trump told us recently that the Bible is his favorite book.
Ted Cruz has declared that the Bible establishes criteria for political electability.
Sarah Palin dreams of enacting Biblical law in the United States.
Even Hillary Clinton looks at the Bible and thinks “It’s alive!” and has apparently spent a lot of time studying it.
It outrages common sense to be asked to accept the Bible, bristling with improbable inanities and known inconsistencies, as authoritative in any way — and much less as some sort of public-policy guidebook.
Seriously, though, it insults our intelligence to be enjoined to believe, now that we have split the atom, discovered the Higgs Boson, and sent a probe to Pluto, in the veracity of a supernatural account of the origins of our cosmos.
It insults our intelligence to be enjoined to believe, now that we have mapped the human genome and fathomed our manifest kinship to other species of the animal kingdom, that a supernatural being verbally conjured us into existence.
http://www.salon.com/2015/09/20/the_right_hides_behind_a_fictional_bible_memo_to_ted_cruz_and_donald_trump_your_favorite_book_is_made_up/
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