Should the Bible be allowed to govern anything besides one's own life?

The Bible is a guide to living. But time has shown in many many instances, where the Bible is used to govern the way society itself will work. Its what caused there to be so many different denominations within Christianity, because people did not agree with the interpretations of the Bible, and interpretations of the Bible is what helped the governing of each town.

People have used, and still use the Bible to justify hatred acts, while the opposing side, the side one would consider liberal (the side that is for one's rights), use the Bible to justify their arguments.

If you look at slavery, interracial relationships (Loving vs Virginia), the gay marriage movement, and other movements, in each of these cases, the Bible was used on BOTH sides of the arguments.

This should tell you something...

It proves how useless it is to use the Bible to govern society. Its one thing to use it for your own personal being...but its pretty useless to use it for society. The Bible is what helped encourage the slavery of Africans for as long as it did...it encouraged many segregated and racist acts against blacks (such as the Mormons and the ideology of the Mark of Cain).

Likewise, people had to use the Bible to help abolish slavery....

The problem with the Bible is that, it is very vague and by using it to justify any acts in society, it could truly mess up society. One can use it for any argument, as the Bible often contradicts itself (it doesn't condemn slavery and in fact encourages it, YET, at the same time, the Bible says all is equal and made in the same image, and if this is true, how can slavery be as one has to seem themselves as superior in order to put another human into slavery).

I do believe in freewill. I do think God gave people freewill...but at the same time why doesn't Jesus condemn slavery?

Some say because he was being a realist, because humans had freewill, he just went with it...yet that doesn't explain how he condemned other things that he found horrible.

Its hard to have faith in someone who condoned evil.

But in the end, people need to stop using the Bible to justify anything that has to do with society. In the end, one makes a villain out of the Lord, simply by misusing the Bible.