id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8581 Criticism of Jesus - Wikipedia .html text/html 6678 793 71 More contemporary notable critics of Jesus include Ayn Rand, Hector Avalos, Sita Ram Goel, Christopher Hitchens, Bertrand Russell, and Dayananda Saraswati. Avery Robert Dulles held the opinion that "Jesus, though he repeatedly denounced sin as a kind of moral slavery, said not a word against slavery as a social institution", and believes that the writers of the New Testament did not oppose slavery either.[30] 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." Giles points to this fact as being used as an argument that Jesus approved of slavery.[31] In certain major non-English translations,[attribution needed] the first statement in the first sermon of Jesus (Luke 4:18),[32] is a call to free the slaves: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8581.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8581.txt