I love the Bible. The fact that people fight over it, misuse it, and don’t know how to read it is not the Bible’s fault. There will always be people hungry for power who will use the Bible as a weapon in their arsenal. A great aunt of mine used it — abused it — to frighten and bully me with it when I was a child, and I sensed even then that there was something not right about her use of the Bible as a source of condemnation and pessimism.