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• Thursday, October 2, 2008 11:53 AM

  @jamiso

  "Don't you at least find it a little odd, that in this book, which is "God's Words', God can not find time to come out and condemn slavery, warn against incest, or provide some useful knowledge about the world like that we are part of a solar system or that germs make people sick……."

  Hashem explicitly condemns what we in the US call slavery in the 8th Commandment. "Slavery" in Torah is either a punishment for theft or a means for a gentile to become Jewish. Incest is explicitly prohibited. Finally, have you ever heard of the phrase "Cleanliness is next to Godliness"? That's from Talmud, which is where the bulk of the Oral Tradition is recorded.

  "Yet can devote an entire paragraph to outlining the procedure for dealing with what to do if two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from the man who is beating him, by grabbing the other man's genitals?

  And even so… Why is the woman in the wrong here? She was trying to break up a fight! Shouldn’t she be rewarded?"

  Very very good question, like all your other questions. Unfortunately, I can't answer all of them, nor could anybody in 1000 words. Here's a good place to start: www.aish.com. Should you want reference materials, www.artscroll.com. Good luck with that.

  And yes, the King James Version of the Bible should be pulped.

  Honestly speaking, do you see no absurdity in this?

  —LeftWingPharisee Read LeftWingPharisee's other letters
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