AN HONEST EXAMINATION OF BIBLICAL FAMILY VALUES can also help illuminate the distinction between religion and morality. The Hebrew bible shows a distinct lack of familial warmth. The first half of the first book, Genesis, contains, among other things, fratricide,13 polygamy,14 incest,15 pimping one’s wife to a king,16 and a father offering his daughters up to gang rape and then later impregnating them himself.17
