Daniel McClellan

“Three very widespread and deeply embedded dogmas that I frequently run across when I talk with Bible believers are inspiration, inerrancy, and univocality. Not a single one of these is supported by any data.”
― Daniel McClellan, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues

“People are curious, what does Mike Johnson think about any issue under the sun?’ I said, ‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it.’ That’s my worldview, that’s what I believe.”5 Does Speaker Johnson really believe this? Even where it explicitly endorses chattel slavery? Even where it treats rape of a woman as a property crime against whatever man has rights over the victim’s body? Even where it acknowledges that the God of Israel demands child sacrifice? Even where it insists women aren’t allowed to teach and are supposed to just shut up because they were the ones who got duped by the talking snake? What about where it endorses communalism? What about where it says a man should gouge out his eye if that eye causes him to lust after a woman? What about where it says the most pious people will castrate themselves for the sake of the kingdom of heaven? Isn’t that what the Bible says?”
― Daniel McClellan, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues