added by Jonathan Simcoe · updated 2y ago
Opinion | Imagine a Bible With No Moses, No Story of the Exodus
America, too, needs a redemption narrative, a shared story for the America being born in our time. Perhaps the Exodus from Egypt, once deemed so dangerous that it had to be excised from some Bibles, will awaken our moral imagination as we strive to write a new story for this nation. I still believe that together we can build a redeemed society. A m
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
Powerful.This version of the text, gutted of that central narrative, was designed to fulfill a two-part objective: to introduce enslaved people to Christianity and to preserve the system of slavery. The problem was that the Exodus story — bearing the promise of freedom over slavery, dignity over degradation — is powerful and dangerous. The slaveholders were
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Jonathan Simcoe added 8mo ago
This is awful and heartless.