criticism of jesus plucking eyeballs out slavery Jesus has been criticized as vindictive intolerant prudish and unkind Several scholars have noted that he appears to condone slavery TABTAB TAB The cardinal Avery Robert Dulles stated that Jesus said not a word against slavery as a social institution and believes that the writers of the New Testament did not oppose slavery either In his paper published in Evangelical Quarterly Kevin Giles notes that Jesus often encountered slavery but not one word of criticism did the Lord utter against slavery and argues that Jesus must have then condoned it TABTAB How come the Catholic removed this section in his words because it didn t appear to be criticism is this a joke TAB Friedrich Nietsche argued that a war was declared on passion in the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus says of sexual temptation If thy eye offend thee pluck it out According to Nietsche Destroying the passions and cravings merely as a preventive measure against their stupidity and the unpleasant consequences of this stupidity today this itself strikes us as merely another acute form of stupidity We no longer admire dentists who pluck out teeth so that they will not hurt any more the Christian who follows that advice and believes he has killed his sensuality is deceiving himself it lives on in an uncanny vampire form and torments in repulsive disguises Friedrich Nietzsche 1878 Human all too Human A Book for Free Spirits The Wanderer and His Shado aphorism 83