Interesting. Still based on an assumption that his view of Christianity is objectively true…versus the thousands of other christianities out there that also claim to be true.
Given the difficulties with how “The” Bible was actually assembled, his parsing of texts is not anymore convincing than that of other versions.

Hey Man, doing my New Year’s bumps on old friends. Hope you and yours are well.

there is a long tradition of christian anarchism. one item i’d point to is william lloyd garrison’s astonishing ‘declaration of sentiments adopted by the peace convention (1838). it was quoted in its entirety in tolstoy’s *the kingdom of god is within*, another classic version of christian anarchism
http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1838/09/28/declaration-of-sentiments-adopted-by-the-peace-convention

Benjamin Cain:

“Then there are the subversive myths, such as the original form of Buddhism and Gnosticism or authentic Christianity, as well as various mystical traditions in Islam, Judaism, and in many other great religions. Christianity was originally a religion for losers, but some of its leaders sold out Jesus’ teachings for worldly power, reinterpreting or editing out Jesus’s uncompromising anti-naturalism, and scapegoating the Jews to let the Romans off the hook for executing Jesus. The Christian Bible came to consist of books that allowed Christianity to survive because they made peace with the natural order and the prevalence of dominance hierarchies, whether the rulers were Romans, Spaniards, Britons, or Americans. But the point is that a myth that projects the idea of a dominance hierarchy onto the relation between our world and a supernatural one can be told from the perspective of those who are poorly served by that arrangement and who are thus open to rebelling–against both human society and God’s plan.”

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2013/02/is-devil-hero.html?showComment=1361312300544#c3758293620384024248