John Kerry: Don't Live Your Life by 2,000-Year-Old Texts

John Kerry: Don't Live Your Life by 2,000-Year-Old Texts

Secretary of State John Kerry, stopping in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to visit with U.S. Embassy staff, implied that religious tenets created more than 1000 years ago were inappropriate for modern society. 

Kerry said:

This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.

Kerry was only echoing his boss, Barack Obama, circa 2008:

Democracy demands that the religiously-motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

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