Bashing The Bible Bashers
The problem with Bible Bashers, those strident fundamentaliost Christians who proclaim the literal truth of their Bible and insist it should be read as a history book is that unffetered by any need for factual accuracy they can make the dogmas of their religion sound very simple when in fact our lives and the societies we live in are very complicated. Just have faith, they say and God will solve your problems. So often without realising it people have ceded control of their lives and surrendered the power of independent thought to a church that is no more than a personality cult. Creative Commons: Some rights reserved (non commercial, attrib, no derivs.
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Bashing The Bible Bashers

Ian R Thorpe

March 28, 2006

I must begin by saying that I have no problem with most religions, I only take issue with those that try to insist their belief system is the absolute truth and nobody must ever question it.

A couple of weeks ago I received a mild rebuke for a reference to "Bible Bashers," my readers though I ought to have made reference to "Scripture scholars." Well I have been out of commission for a while but thought this point ought to be picked up.

A quite strange trend has emerged since the start of the Iraq war; American writers are using the UK, Canadian, Australian and European media to express points of view that dissent from dominant attitudes of U.S. society. This is particularly true of those who are opposed to the bullying tactics of the religious right. Twice in recent weeks I have read articles that have berated the Democratic Party and U.S. liberals for being mealy mouthed in the face of belligerence.

Most notable of these was by former supreme court judge Sandra Day O'Connor who sees the possibility of U.S. society slipping into a kind of tyranny if the slide to the right is not opposed.

So I stand by my reference to Bible Bashers, I know what I meant, I did not mean Scholars of the ancient scriptures, they are usually open - minded, intelligent and only too willing to engage in reasoned argument. We were treated to an example of the archetypal bible basher on TV a few days ago. On a discussion programme in which he shared the stage with a humanist, a Salvation Army officer and a progressive Anglican he declared that civilised society can only exist within a religious framework in which everybody is compelled by law to obey the will of God. The humanist pointed out that with or without belief in a supreme being human beings are capable of distinguishing between right and wrong and choosing courses of action which enable us to look after our own interests without doing harm to others.

At this point the Bible Basher pulled a bible out of his pocket, held it up in one hand and literally BASHED IT repeatedly with the other as he proclaimed "the will of God is only contained in these pages and anybody who does not obey the will of God will be cast down into hell and will burn for all eternity." From that point on the discussion was wrecked by his shouting down both the other parties in the debate and the presenter. The show was live and so the producer had to rapidly reschedule the next item.

Not all Bible Bashers bash the bible quite so literally, but the action is represented metaphorically once they claim that can be no consideration of any point of view but theirs. Far from being considered Bible scholarship, this attitude falls under the definition of fascism. We must always oppose fascism not matter what disguise it wears so let us not fool ourselves into thinking that just because someone claims to speak on behalf of Jesus their intentions are good.

The question I would put for discussion then is this: should we respect everybody's right to free expression when there are those who would use their free expression to deny free expression to anybody who held a differing view. Americans are very fond of their right to free expression but at what point is the line drawn because freedom always carries responsibility and one of those responsibilities in any debating chamber .

The right characterise liberals as weak and wishy washy. If we must always be reasonable in the face of unreason are we not proving their point. There is such a thing as militant moderacy, strong liberalism. Bullies are always cowards, but only show their cowardice if the peacemakers are confident enough to call their bluff. Let them think for one moment they have the upper hand and...well just look around you.

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