Nature Recommends Trimming the Bible

People act violently when they think God sanctions violence, thinks Brad Bushman, a social psychologist from U. of Michigan.  Heidi Ledford wrote in Nature¹ that he and others like Hector Avalos (Iowa State) propose editing Scripture.  “Avalos has proposed a radical solution to theologically inspired violence � cut the violent passages out of the scripture.”  He says this is not a “wildly controversial idea” because churches are already selective about what they preach.

¹Heidi Ledford, “Scriptural violence can foster aggression,” Nature 446, 114-115 (8 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446114b.

What business is this of Nature?  Clean your own house, Darwinians.  Thou shalt not alter a word of Scripture till thou purge Darwin’s writings of the racism that led to the largest and most pernicious genocides of all time.*  Purge, also, the writings of his cousin Galton on eugenics, and the writings of all the other Darwin disciples who saw violence as a good thing – the agent of evolutionary progress.  148 million people perished in the last 100 years due to Darwin-inspired regimes.  Multiple millions more who survived suffered other forms of violence, torture and deprivation.
    When you are done with that little exercise, then purge the Quran of its violent passages.  How convenient to attack the Scriptures of Christians who believe in praying for one’s enemies, while ignoring the 1.5 billion people subscribing to a “religion of peace” that believes in blowing up buses and shopping malls in the name of the moon god so that brainwashed young men can fulfill their fantasies of eternal sex.
    Then, Darwin Party, write a term paper on the hospitals and charities and improvements to education and government founded by Christians.  These are prerequisites before starting any conversation about the interpretation of the violent passages in Scripture, which have been duly discussed in context by Jewish and Christian theologians for millennia.  OK, atheists, got any virtues you would like to brag about?  Besides hypocrisy, that is.  How about a little altruism? (01/21/2006, 03/16/2005).