Whose Oppressive Discourse? by Randall Smith

A Protestant friend told me recently that he heard a woman professor say that the Bible is filled with “oppressive discourse.”  Some people talk this way and teach others to do so as well.  Some even demand that Biblical language or discourse based on Biblical language be banned.  (Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. would have run afoul of these people constantly and have little left to say.)

How to respond?  I suppose we could begin with a simple: “No, the Bible is not filled with oppressive discourse, but you seem to be.”  But since “so’s your old man” is rarely an effective argument, perhaps we should say more….

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