I’m thinking about pulling a Christian stunt and going for a book deal, similar to Rachel Held Evans (A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master”) and Timothy Kurek (The Cross in the Closet). Held Evans’s goal was to spend a year following “all of the Bible’s instructions for women as literally as possible for a year to show that no woman, no matter how devout, is actually practicing biblical womanhood all the way.” Kurek spent a year pretending to be a homosexual to “walk in the shoes of [the] very people he had been taught to shun.”
I condemn adultery, and my guess is anyone who’s been personally affected by its damaging effects will hate this particular sin with a special kind of hatred. I think I can land a book deal if I spend a year advocating death for adulterers, blasphemers, and Sabbath-breakers. What do you think?
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