(September 20, 2016 at 5:37 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: With all due deference to Twain, I think it was the general culture of the times which gave rise to the witch hunts, and not so much "the text" (aka the bible). I think it would be somewhat misguided then to looking to purge the text as an answer to man's ills.
General culture which was profoundly shaped by the text.