Hector Avalos

Hector Avalos

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Biography

Hector Avalos was a professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, a cultural anthropologist, and the author of several books on religion. Avalos was an atheist and advocate of secular humanist ethics.

Books by Hector Avalos
Fighting WordsFighting Words
End of Biblical StudiesEnd of Biblical Studies
The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament EthicsThe Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics
Strangers in Our Own LandStrangers in Our Own Land
Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical ScholarshipSlavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship
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Quotes by Hector Avalos

"By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh."

Hector Avalos