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klinton said:
Quoting the Talmud as equal to the Bible is wrong ('do not add nor take away from scripture...yadda yadda'). Not accepting Christ is wrong. There are tonnes of things 'wrong' and sinful, being played out by average people everyday. Why is it that homosexuality is singled out as something society chooses to address?



The Talmud was handed down at the same time. We don't add or take away from it. It was the spoken interpretation, the user's manual if you will, that God handed down to Moses, and Moses handed to Joshua, who handed it to the Elders, who handed it to the Prophets, who handed it to the Great Assembly (the rabbis). It does not add are take away, it is equal. One is meaningless without the other.

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And it's nice that your Talmud asks that pillows be given to slaves, but that doesn't refute the fact that slaves were beaten, and that there were guidlines as to how many times one was allowed to hit thier slave.



I'm pretty sure a slave could not be beaten, according to the Talmud. And if there were guidelines, isn't it important to protect the quality of life of the slave? Slavery for a thief who could not return the item or repay the value was in place of prison. What's worse, an environment where one can still live a high quality of life at the very least equal to the one already led (most likely better), or living in a negative environment with very little chance of actual rehabilitation?


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It also doesn't refute the fact that women are 'lesser vessles' to be quarantined monthly...and that children were to be executed for disobedience....



Women are not lesser vessels, and they are not quarantined during their period. A husband just cannot have sex with her until her period has stopped for a week and she has cleansed herself in a ritual bath. The reason men are encouraged to sleep in another bed during that time is so that they do not have the urge to have sex. It is not law, it is about self control. As for why women become impure, it's not something I understand. However, women are greater vessels than men, not lesser, because women have the ability to give life. Men have many obligations that women do not have because of this.

As for disobedient children being executed, this is such a rare case it has never happened. Ever. The written Bible actually does give a detailed description of the child in question, and the point of it, as I understand it, is a lesson to the parents about raising children.

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The list is endless, as to Biblical guidlines that are largely ignored by society.



Yes, ignored by society as a whole, I do not question that. But just because people at large ignore it, that doesn't justify it, it only calls out the hypocrisy of those who claim to follow the Bible, whether as Christians, or Jews.

Here's an oldie but a goody: If society jumped off of a bridge, would you? If you would, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.