We also tend to ignore the embarrassing bits, like when Paul tells Titus, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons" (Titus 1:12 UPDATED NIV). I've never once heard a sermon preached on this passage, and yet, if these words are truly the inerrant and unchanging words of God intended as universal commands for all people in all places at all times, then the Christian community needs to do a better job of mobilizing against the Cretan people, perhaps constructing some "God Hates Cretans" signs, or warning Christian travelers not to get off the ship when they stop at Crete on their Mediterranean cruises, or boycotting movies starring Jennifer Aniston, whose father, I am told, is a lazy, evil, gluttonous Cretan.
-- Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, p. 260
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