Reply #10: Oh, you're pretty on the mark for most of your cites [View All]

[RJ Connors]

As you and some others have pointed out the O.T. references that the religious right uses in their attacks is really about domination and the humiliation of others. The idea of an alternative lifestyle, or even of love in the modern day romantic sense, was just not part of the culture.

I would disagree that Jesus said we only have to follow the 10 commandants as he said, "I have come not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Now he may have had is top ten favorites, kind of like Dave's top ten list, but within the political climate in which he existed to claim that the Hebrews only needed to follow 10 of the commandments would have got him executed much faster than he was ultimately able to do.

I don't know if you have seen the book, A Year of Living Biblically, by A.J. Jacobs, but if you get an opportunity to read it A.J. addresses many of these topics in a great and humorous way. It really is a great book.

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