Michelle Bachmann reveals: Religious Right actually wants to see Israel destroyed.

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28. Of course

That's true of any book. The reader chooses what he or she finds significant or meaningful. There's obviously more to it than that, but that's the essence.

As a moral guide, I think it depends on how it's read. If you read it in terms of "love your neighbor" and realize just how broad that is, then it's absolutely first-rate. That commandment, found in both the Old and New Testaments, is often given lip service, but little more. It's a very bitter command because of how broad it is. There's a reason most people go running from it. It quite literally requires one to love the very people who hate, attack, oppress, rob, murder, etc. My personal feeling is that after a person absorbs that, the rest gradually, note I said gradually, falls into its proper place as to importance and relevance. I tend to think that whatever you find that contradicts that commandment, or can't be reconciled with it, is to be given minimal importance (I don't want to say ignored, but I wouldn't quibble with anyone who said that).