Agree, agree, agree on the hard passages. It's kind of a lie by omission, and it sets up the pewsitters for a rude awakening when they pick up a Bible for themselves. I know of more than one young person who got to Judges 19 and promptly decided they were not going to have anything to do with any religion that "promoted" such behavior in…
Agree, agree, agree on the hard passages. It's kind of a lie by omission, and it sets up the pewsitters for a rude awakening when they pick up a Bible for themselves. I know of more than one young person who got to Judges 19 and promptly decided they were not going to have anything to do with any religion that "promoted" such behavior in its holy book. Keeping at least some of the horrible stuff in the Lectionary gives priests and deacons a fruitful opportunity to disabuse the faithful of the idea that the Bible is primarily a moral instruction manual.
Agree, agree, agree on the hard passages. It's kind of a lie by omission, and it sets up the pewsitters for a rude awakening when they pick up a Bible for themselves. I know of more than one young person who got to Judges 19 and promptly decided they were not going to have anything to do with any religion that "promoted" such behavior in its holy book. Keeping at least some of the horrible stuff in the Lectionary gives priests and deacons a fruitful opportunity to disabuse the faithful of the idea that the Bible is primarily a moral instruction manual.