What the new Conservative Bible Project fails to grasp is that the Bible’s not there to provide timeless certainty but to provoke arguments and unsettle what it is that we think we know.
Conservatives are fond of using scripture to support their arguments, and they are great at tapping the emotional heart of a story. Liberals, not so much.
In his newest book Robert Wright charts a path between atheism and belief, busting religion myths as he goes: Jesus did not preach universal love; Jews didn’t start out as monotheists; and the origin of religion had nothing to do with morality.
In this 1908 retelling of the gospels, Jesus travels to India, Persia, and Greece, preaching of a “cord of love” that binds all humanity. What does The Aquarian Gospel have to teach us about Christianity, New Age religion, and the birth of the culture wars?