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Finally, there are the wonderful words which Thomas Hobbes concluded part III of his Leviathan:
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/ ... han-j.htmlFor it is not the bare words, but the scope of the writer, that giveth the true light by which any writing is to be interpreted; and they that insist upon single texts, without considering the main design, can derive no thing from them clearly; but rather, by casting atoms of Scripture as dust before men's eyes, make everything more obscure than it is, an ordinary artifice of those that seek not the truth, but their own advantage.
The Faith of a Heretic page 213
When we consider the main design, it appears that the Gospels reject all concern with social justice and reduce morality to a prudent concern for one's own salvation; indeed that morality itself becomes equivocal. No agreement can be had on where Jesus stood on moral questions—
