On their tests of obscenity the Bible certainly could not hope to escape; yet they believe, in general, that the Bible is the inspired word of God, a position which, I venture to suggest, should at the least give them pause.
Laski highlights the contradiction in religious views on obscenity, particularly regarding the Bible.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
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