The political #Bible, part 5: equality | Nick Spencer | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/sep/07/political-bible-equality
We should not, therefore, underestimate how counterintuitive and countercultural human equality is. Nor should we underestimate the extent to which our contemporary commitment to equality is drawn from biblical Christianity.
Genesis 1.26-27 – “… So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them,” – is perhaps the single most influential biblical text in the British political history.