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Originally Posted by Livia
At the risk of repeating myself, because I've said this on another thread when someone was cutting and pasting Leviticus... you have to think about when 613 Mitzvot, or Commandments, were written. It was normal to own slaves back then. It was fine to own slaves up until about 200 years ago in this country! Do we think it's okay now? No we don't. Do we think we should be killed for planting two different grains in one field, or for wearing two different fabrics on our body, or for cutting our hair? No, of course not. You have to interpret the laws - as a lawyer, let me tell you, laws are interpreted every day - and you have to think about what those interpretations mean. You cannot say that you will live to the letter of these laws because it is impossible to live a good, responsible, happy, lawful life if you think that these ancient rules must be taken literally. No one takes the Bible literally unless they are a fool.
it's never good for me to see my faith reduced to a series of incoherent cut and paste jobs with an air of ridicule running through it. I do hope that's not the way this thread will be going.
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agreed, the cheap shots against Religion are pathetic, so many anti religious haters, or atheists know little or nothing of theology and take bits and pieces of works and tales way out of context to support their agenda. I also agree the tendency to take everything far too literally is frankly moronic. such people need to heavily medicated