CoBass, I’m religious myself but it never ceases to amaze me how every religion seems to pick and choose within their own sacred scriptures! American Christians (and even more so, those in Latin America and Africa) can focus on all of the 3-5 bans on homosexuality in the Bible (all but one in the Old Testament) and call them the core of right living. Or they can advocate making the Ten Commandments the basis of public education. But simultaneously they can ignore endless other pages within the five books of the Law (literally, “Torah”) that begin the Bible. We just don’t marry our widowed sisters-in-law or leave untouched the sidecurls of our hair, despite the Bible’s clear and emphatic commands that we do so. (“Cloven hoof” is the King James version.)
And don’t forget that that Law was and is the basis of all three of the religions of the descendants of Abraham, not just Judaism. Not til well after Jesus’ time did they truly divide. I think it’s a lot of picking and choosing …
shytimes, LOL at how it’s “just offal”!
CoBass, I’m religious myself but it never ceases to amaze me how every religion seems to pick and choose within their own sacred scriptures! American Christians (and even more so, those in Latin America and Africa) can focus on all of the 3-5 bans on homosexuality in the Bible (all but one in the Old Testament) and call them the core of right living. Or they can advocate making the Ten Commandments the basis of public education. But simultaneously they can ignore endless other pages within the five books of the Law (literally, “Torah”) that begin the Bible. We just don’t marry our widowed sisters-in-law or leave untouched the sidecurls of our hair, despite the Bible’s clear and emphatic commands that we do so. (“Cloven hoof” is the King James version.)
And don’t forget that that Law was and is the basis of all three of the religions of the descendants of Abraham, not just Judaism. Not til well after Jesus’ time did they truly divide. I think it’s a lot of picking and choosing …