In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, ‘But the Bible is just a book.’ Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books....

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice should create in the discerning male reader a deeply rooted concupiscence for Elizabeth Bennet that springs not from her vivacity or from her wit but from her unerring instinct to...