The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for traffickin... - Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals."

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