Commentary: Stop using the Bible as a model for how to treat people — it’s full of examples of how to be awful

It’s informative that Christians must so often selectively reject their holy scriptures as ridiculous or repugnant in order to justify their own more humanitarian beliefs.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Audience members listen to Gov. Gary Herbert as he reads a scripture from the Bible at the Utah Capitol Rotunda as part of Salt Lake City being selected as the National Bible City for 2013 Monday, November 25, 2013.