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Parallels Between The Bible And To Kill A Mockingbird

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The Bible agrees with the main idea of To Kill a Mockingbird, which is stated by Scout's dad, Atticus. "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird," he tells her.

We'll review the parallels between the Bible and To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson isn't the first man to have experienced unwarranted hatred and violence, nor the first to be falsely accused. This essay will allow us to take a look at the Bible's perspective on these events, and offer moral clarity on the subject.
You shouldn't hate a man without cause.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson, and the rest of the black population, were treated unfairly and without proper respect. Racism was a much more blatant issue back in the early 1900s, and it would be decades before civil rights movements would begin to dispel the worst of the ignorant and uncivilized acts of hate. At the inception of this nation, the United States, slavery was not banned, for fear of shattering the new fledgling and unstable nation. It wouldn't be until the Civil war, in the late 1800s, that slavery would finally be abolished. Yet, regardless of their new freedom from slavery, blacks would be taken advantage of, and treated terribly. Especially in the South, where racism was most prominent.

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Exodus 20:16 tells us this, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." This is one of the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God. The Bible also says, in Exodus 23:1, "Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand in with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness." God values honesty. It was bad enough that the Ewells brought these false charges against Tom, but when the jury decided that Tom was guilty, even when evidence was given to prove otherwise, the entire town was

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