Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses by Philip Jenkins

Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can't Ignore the Bible's Violent Verses

Philip Jenkins

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur’an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired in ...

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