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Explain Miss Maudie's statement, " Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of... your father."

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That it's not the object itself that is good or bad. It's whoever THINKS it to be good or bad. Such as the Bible can be interpreted to mean what is convenient to you, but not what is truly meant of the Bible.
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