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Bible Is “A Catalogue of Cruelties,” Says Saramago

By MARIO DE QUEIROZ October 31, 2009.

Print: Inter Press Service

After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as “a manual of bad morals,” and a “catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature.”