The Savage Text explores the Christian church’s abuse of the Bible as a vehicle for discrimination and prejudice against minority groups, resulting in the very mission of the church being severely compromised.

• A controversial exploration of the Christian church, claiming that hard-line positions on the Bible are a modern aberration and should be revealed as such


• Argues that the Bible has been abused to convert the “good news” which it brings to the world into the savage text that persecutes, condemns and banishes


• Asks how Christians have been able to conduct, in public and on a global scale, an argument that has exposed so much prejudice, fear and hatred


• Shows how has the Bible been used to discriminate against many groups - children, women, Jews, the disabled, witches, people of color, slaves, scientists, criminals, heretics, and even animals, nature and the environment


• Proposes the need for a series of "principles" for a peaceful reading of the Bible


• Takes a balanced position, and does not attack or promote one Christian faith above another