But she did embody the surface perusal of much of modern society which often places objectives before obscured truths. True, Mr Wilkes may have used only Old Testament law for his argument which would be wrong of him. And Ms O’Keeffe embellishes, with good reason, the obvious wrongs. But her only problem is that Old Testament law is meant to be wrong.

She then trendily inserts today’s favourite sin: slavery. Modern society, because we are largely and even radically indoctrinated, sees slavery as a maligned and dirty word. But if we were to present this a thousand years ago, the listener would look at you blankly and say: “What’s wrong with slavery? Anything?”

The modern world really only has an ignorant, surface perception of real life. Especially in the Western world, society sees to it that a downturn on whatever appears bad completely obscures any larger upturn.

In ancient times and even in the 19th century, slavery was direly essential for much of the public. Industries and plantations could never have been if unpaid labour didn’t exist.

Most slave owners, contradictory to modern and ignorant misleading, were not baddies.

The vast majority of plantation owners were good people and kind to their slaves. (As for slave traders, the first of them were Africans themselves). Only a small, condemned minority were cruel to their slaves.

The writer them emphasises how the various bible authors are contradictory regarding slavery. But are they really? She will find with perseverance that negative and positive approaches to any bible subject are relative only to context. Isaiah, for example, uses slavery as a curse when symbolising the penalties for unbelievers. In Luke and Exodus, both historic and not law books, slavery is included as a normal way of life. None fundamentally contradict.