Your Manager Says for You to Shut Up

The second to the last sentence of that last post was rough:
"It should be deeply troubling to a people that want to be this community that responds to the Word of God to say and do something like, "What does the Bible say about slavery?" and then interpret some texts in The Bible that use the word slavery as having some directly instructive relation to our understanding of slavery in the same way we would understand a sign that read "No Swimming Without Lifeguard Present" posted on a fence surrounding a swimming pool has a relation to whether we should swim- and even that's not enough information to know whether we should swim."

Goodness, that's one sentence?

It's at least one sentence.

I could have made it much simpler by saying: "The Bible is not like a 'No Parking' sign, and any people who think it is ought not call themselves 'the church'."