`  == criticism of jesus/plucking eyeballs out/slavery ==   Jesus has been criticized as vindictive, intolerant, prudish, and unkind. Several scholars have noted that he appears to condone slavery.   −    −  The cardinal Avery Robert Dulles stated that Jesus “said not a word against slavery as a social institution``, and believes that the writers of the New Testament did not oppose slavery either.  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,” and argues that Jesus must have then condoned it.     −       How come the Catholic removed this section in his words ``because it didn't appear to be criticism`` is this a joke?   −  Friedrich Nietsche argued that “a war was declared on passion” in the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus says of sexual temptation: ``If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out.`` According to Nietsche, “Destroying the passions and cravings, merely as a preventive measure against their stupidity and the unpleasant consequences of this stupidity, today this itself strikes us as merely another acute form of stupidity. We no longer admire dentists who ``pluck out`` teeth so that they will not hurt any more…. the Christian who follows that advice and believes he has killed his sensuality is deceiving himself: it lives on in an uncanny vampire form and torments in repulsive disguises.”[Friedrich Nietzsche, 1878, Human all too Human: A Book for Free Spirits, The Wanderer and His Shado, aphorism 83] `