Re: paradigm shift wi/o a clutch was OT - "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"


Ed Huntress wrote:
> "Gus" <sven-ole@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1138030088.792439.296020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > Well, whatever the translation it's still what Moses told his people
> > about 3000 years ago in a totally different kind of society and I think
> > it is meant as history, not instructions for today. Today, we have the
> > kinder and gentler New Testament and the Golden Rule. :-)
>
> Yeah, and it's mostly PG-rated. You can read that stuff to the kids, like
> _The Cat in the Hat_.
>
> The hard-bitten holy rollers like to take a good nip of the Old Testament
> from time to time. I think they get their rocks off on it. A good, honest
> Hebrew translation, with none of that wimpy Latin translation in the middle,
> would be hard pressed to get an R rating.
>
> As a famous American Patriot once said,
>
> "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the
> cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which
> more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we
> called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It . . . has served to
> corrupt and brutalize mankind." - Thomas Paine
>
> That's a book that can really feed the soul of a compassionate conservative.
> d8-)
>
> --
> Ed Huntress

What can I say? I guess we get out of it what we want.

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