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The quote above comes from an\u00a0article by Derek Penwell<\/a>\u00a0challenging the notion that liberals hate the Bible. Here is a slightly longer sample including the quotation above:<\/p>\n

Liberal Christians aren\u2019t liberal in spite of the Bible, but because of it. They don\u2019t pursue justice for LGBT people because they haven\u2019t read Scripture, but precisely because they have. And in the arc of the narrative of God\u2019s interaction with humanity, liberal Christians find a radical expansiveness, an urgent desire to broaden the embrace of God\u2019s hospitality to include those whom the religious big shots are always kicking to the sidelines.<\/p>\n

In fact, on behalf of liberal Christians, I\u2019m calling for a moratorium on the Liberals-hate-the-Bible meme. I\u2019d like to suggest that the burden of proof should be on those who would read the Hebrew prophets and the Jesus of the Gospels and come away thinking that God has no problem tightening the screws on the abused and the powerless\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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