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<\/a><\/div>\nI\u2019ve been reading some student assignments that discussed the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22<\/a>, and am struck by how many are ready to say that Abraham did the right thing in being willing to kill his son. They say this, presumably, because the story is in the Bible, and so Abraham must<\/em> have been right.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ve been reading some student assignments that discussed the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22, and am struck by how many are ready to say that Abraham did the right thing in being willing to kill his son. They say this, presumably, because the story is in the Bible, and so Abraham must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>Readers of the story ought to also place themselves in Isaac\u2019s shoes, and perhaps should read the story alongside an account of what Andrea Yates<\/a> did to her children, and to what little we\u2019ve been able to find out about what her children said to her before she drowned them.<\/div>\n