How (Not) to Read the Bible: Making Sense of the Anti-women, Anti-science, Pro-violence, Pro-slavery and Other Crazy-Sounding Parts of Scripture

by Dan Kimball

I close with a popular verse that affects many people today: Don’t get a tattoo (Leviticus 19:28). The full Bible verse reads, “Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.” The Bible isn’t speaking about our practice of contemporary tattooing,