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The funny thing about the Bible is that you can interpret most passages to mean just about whatever you want them to. Pro-choice or Pro-life. For or against revenge and the death penalty. Against homosexual marriage, or ambiguous about it. Bible passages have been used to justify just about everything humanity has ever tried to pull. A passage from the Bible was used as justification for the Salem witch trials – “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” Exodus 22:18. Does that justify those actions? No.

Often there are passages that are used by proponents of both sides of an issue to illustrate their points - the same exact passages used by people on two opposite extreme sides of an issue. Wouldn’t it be easy of God came down here and told us what all that stuff meant in plain and simple English? Of course. Is it going to happen? I don’t know, but I somehow doubt it. Then again maybe He's already done that – “Love thy neighbor as thyself.”