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"In the early part of the twentieth century, almost everybody in [[Britain]]... would be judged racist by today's standards.  Most white people believed that black people... were inferior to white people in almost all respects except --- patronizingly --- sense of rhythm.  The 1920s equivalent of James Bond was... Bulldog Drummond.  In one novel, ''The Black Gang'', Drummond refers to "Jews, foreigners, and other unwashed folk."  In... ''The Female of the Species'', Drummond is cleverly disguised as Pedro, black servant of the archvillain.  For his dramatic disclosure... that "Pedro" is really Drummond himself... he chose these words:  "Every beard is not false, but every nigger smells.  That beard ain't false, dearie, and dis nigger don't smell [...]"... I read it... three decades after it was written, and it was (just) still possible for a boy to thrill to the drama and not notice the racism. Nowadays, it would be inconceivable." <ref>Dawkins, Richard, "The God Delusion", Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 265-266</ref>

Slavery, which was taken for granted in the Bible and throughout most of history, was abolished in civilized countries in the nineteenth century. All civilized nations now accept what was widely denied up to the 1920s, that a woman's vote, in an election or on a jury, is the equal of a man's. In today's enlightened societies (a category that manifestly does not include, for example, Saudi Arabia), women are no longer regarded as property, as they clearly were in biblical times. Any modern legal system would have prosecuted Abraham for child abuse. <ref>Dawkins, Richard, "The God Delusion", Houghton Mifflin, 2006, pp. 265-266</ref>

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