A "CHRISTIAN" Nation?

[lees1975]

46. Actually, Christian theology is very systematic. It's been interpreted by most Christians in our culture through

the lens of western civilization. The same God was not okay with any of those things, and if you read, and interpret, the narrative in the context of the culture in which it was written, it makes more sense, though a lot of that culture is lost to us. But you can't pick up those texts and read them as if they were written for a literal interpretation of whatever culture that reads them whenever they read them.

Conservative Christians in the United States have gotten good at taking verses, which are really just reference points put in by the printer, not actual literary devices used by Bible writers, and using them to apply to whatever they want in whatever way they want. But the Bible can't be interpreted in bits and pieces, and it can't be interpreted without its original context.