THE BIBLE

THE BIBLE

It has inspired some of the great monuments of human thought, literature, and art;

It has equally fuelled some of the worst excesses of human savagery, self-interest, and narrow-mindedness.

It has inspired men and women to acts of great service and courage, to fight for liberation and human development; and

It has provided the ideological fuel for societies which have enslaved their fellow human beings and reduced them to abject poverty....

It has, perhaps above all, provided a source of religious and moral norms which have enabled communities to hold together, to care for, and to protect one another;

Yet precisely this strong sense of belonging has in turn fuelled ethnic, racial, and international tension and conflict.

- John Riches

Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the

University of Glasgow

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