Hector Avalos Quotes

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It i...

I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we treat ethics in any other works of ancient literature. It i...

Hector Avalos

Tags: ancient literature, atheism, atrocities in the bible, biblical ethics, biblical morality, cherry picking, cherry picking scripture, ethics, genocide, genocide in the bible

By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times,...

Hector Avalos

By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times,...

Hector Avalos

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, christianity and homosexuality, god, homophobia, homosexuality, humans, murder, nature

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Hector Avalos (October 8, 1958 – April 12, 2021) was a professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, cultural anthropologist, and the author of several books on religion. Avalos was an atheist and advocate of secular humanist ethics.