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

online. Two guys hit the streets with a hardcover book in hand. The title: The Holy Qur’an. They open up the book and read several verses from it, including: • “If you reject my decrees and abhor my laws . . . You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.”*