When he thought of the other characters in the good book, it was hard not to see the hypocrisy. King David, having Bathsheba’s husband murdered so that he could sleep with her. Solomon and his horde of women. Jacob, who tricked his brother, Esau. The ridiculous rules and laws of Exodus and Numbers. It was so easy for a person to use a section or passage of the Bible for his or her own agenda.

