Keith Lewis is the co-executive state pageant director for the Miss California competition. He is also gay and while his remarks towards Miss California Carrie Prejean -- the one who had the audacity to say she thought marriage should be defined as being between a man and a woman -- were much more diplomatic than some, he also offers up the thoroughly modern opinion of what the Bible is and what it represents. Sadly, Mr. Lewis is in good company and that's why folks like Ms. Prejean face such stinging rebuke when they use the Good Book to support their positions.
As quoted on FoxNews.com, Mr. Lewis, who was raised Christian, says, "(T)he Bible I have now come to know is an amazing historical document that was written in a time by people who had a different understanding of what our world was. We live in a world that’s very different at this point, our understanding is very different."
Ah, there it is. The left-handed compliment. The Bible, an amazing historical document, but definitely not the Word of God, a living book of rules to safely guide those who will follow it.
Nope, it's just a bunch of dusty old stories told by crusty old men who obviously didn't have enough to do what with scratching out their livelihoods at a time when pretty much everyone had nothing. Give it no credit for changing lives, healing bodies, or otherwise forming the very foundations of civilized nations. Its contents have inspired no one to greater good, made no martyrs -- Harriett Tubman, Corrie Ten Boom, Abraham Lincoln, Florence Nightingale, Albert Schweitzer notwithstanding.
At least this is what athiests and all who are repulsed by its contents would have us believe.
I agree with Mr. Lewis that we do now live in a world that's very different from the one nearly 2000 years ago. It's different alright, but it's not necessarily better.
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