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Scripture
Scripture is a sacred religious text.
In the West, it often refers to the Bible, but other books of scriptures also exist.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio... ...more
In the West, it often refers to the Bible, but other books of scriptures also exist.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio... ...more
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The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating of children, dominion over animals, and the persecution of heretics and homosexuals. Humanitarian reforms such as the elimination of cruel punishment, the dissemination of empathy-inducing novels, and the abolition of slavery were met with fierce opposition in their time b
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― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.
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