Script Out Passages: The Genocidal Texts of the Bible.
Hespeler, 27 September, 2015 © Scott McAndless 1 Samuel 15:1-21, Psalm 137, Colossians 1:15-20 I have been talking about what I call Script Out ® passages for a few weeks now – passages from the Bible that we like to ignore or pretend like they aren’t there at all. It is something that we often do because a passage makes us feel uncomfortable. And I’ve been thinking this week, that there is a certain power in discomfort. I mean, consider the really extraordinary things that have happened this month because of discomfort. At the beginning of September, the world had been in the throes of a full blown humanitarian disaster for quite some time. As a result of a revolt in the region of Syria and Iraq, driven by an organization called ISIS, and made worse by the anti-insurgency tactics of the Syrian government, there was this huge movement of people who were on the move trying to save th...