Many fundamentalist Americans claim to love their own personal hateful, warmongering, racist, misogynistic version of the Bible. They love to pick and choose which verses they like and shun the ones that they don't. For example, they love to use Genesis 12:3 to justify violence against Palestinians:
I will bless those who bless you [Abraham's descendants--i.e., Israel] and curse those who curse you.
several verses that claim to condemn ghey secks, and most of the Ten Commandments, particularly Exodus 20:13:
Thou shalt not [murder].
Oh if they would just read a few verses down.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
That's Exodus 20:16. You hear that, fundies? That's one of the Ten Commandments. How often do you bear false witness against people of color, women, LGBTs, the poor, and against all those libruls who dare to stick up for the oppressed--you know, like Christ did? All. The. Freaking. Time.
So? "So," Revelation 21:8 says:
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
And for any fundie who thinks they're entitled to some sort of "it's a 'minor sin'" loophole, James 2:10-13 slams that door shut:
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
Game. Set. Match.
I believe that we need to make these verses a key part of taking back the offensive against the Religious Right. For instance, when anti-choice protestors spew the lies that abortion doctors are "baby killers," they are not only giving false testimony against their neighbor: By their own logic, they are just as evil as the people they hate. Those are the Bible's words, not mine. That also goes for those who still howl that the LGBT community has some sort of "gay agenda" that involves oppressing straight people. Or for Whites who think that Latinos are threatening to take over the country or that Blacks are choosing to create their own conditions of poverty. Etc. Those are the Bible's words, not mine.