The professional atheist Christopher Hitchens made just this error in a widely viewed online video that he prepared for Vanity Fair. In it, he contrasts the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” (which, as we’ll see in chapter 38, is actually a mistranslation) with Moses’s actions afterward, when, Hitchens says, Moses ordered all his supporters to draw their swords and kill their friends. His implication is that the Bible has no value because it is so massively inconsistent, first warning not to kill and then describing killing. But Hitchens—and more like him—have made a fundamental mistake,
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