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“When the dominant culture makes its reality normative for the rest of the world, the Bible becomes domesticated and hence ceases to be relevant. As long as the United States remained homogeneously white, middle-class Protestant, only one interpretation, theirs, was needed. No other interpretation was considered, especially if it challenged the dominant culture's power or privilege.” — Miguel A De La Torre
When the dominant culture makes its reality normative for the rest of the world, the Bible becomes domesticated and hence ceases to be relevant. As long as the United States remained homogeneously white, middle-class Protestant, only one interpretation, theirs, was needed. No other interpretation was considered, especially if it challenged the dominant culture's power or privilege.