What's wrong with this world?

[Professor S]

And purposefully so. The Bible is a collection of parables that most Christian religions translate into the parlence of their times. Would you rather these Christian religions start beating on every aspect of the Bible and excuse immoral, cruel and violent behavior on the passages that you selected?

If so, you would have fanatical Islam.

Interpretation is a GOOD thing. Interpretation has allowed Christianisty to grow and relate to the here and now, and not what might have been seen as necessary 2,000 years ago. Afterall, Christianity has been the one unifying forced behind Western civilization, and I'll take Western civilization over any other brand in the world :-)