Penn Jillette: Reading the Bible (Or the Koran, Or the Torah) Will Make You an Atheist
Big Think | 16.VII.2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3rGev6OZ3w
He tells you, I would think, at time signatures 0:24 to 0:37.
And they went to the Congregationalist Church, the Church of the Covered Dish Supper in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Massachusetts is an old enough state, you couldn't charter a town without having a Congregationalist Church, and this was the first one in our town. I mean, from back 200 years ago.
I suppose - feel free to disagree - this is where young Penn (name suggests admiration for William Penn on part of parents) learned a lot of values and backing them more than caring about doctrine.
And these values were very neatly applied too, in a Puritan way, so, if slave hunting was wrong, any type of continued slavery in any sense of the word must be wrong as well. Slavemaster (domini) no better than manstealers (plagii in the Latin Bible). Similar with attitudes about universal versus tribal, tribalism not allowed even if the "tribe" (or the twelve of them) was the only one in the neighbourhood not worshipping gross gods demanding gross rites, ranging up to human sacrifice. If you check, while Egyptian and Babylonian paganism was also wrong, Egyptians and Babylonians were not as harshly seen as Canaaneans. But with no tribalism allowed, even this little hint of universalism was too little to get past a radar saying "no universalism". Similar with war and peace.
This is not how one can expect of a man raised on Catechism of St. Pius X and cherishing that doctrine with those values./HGL
