(April 20, 2016 at 12:09 pm)Drich Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 1:27 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Um, bullshit. Utter bullshit. It was a set of rules to the Levites, yes, but it regarded who was entitled to enter the Temple.
Your little Pulled Out of the Ass™ explanation doesn't cover why the same list would include flat noses AND people with hunchbacks and other deformities or handicaps. The simpler explanation is that the Levite priests who wrote the rules thought that just as animals without blemish could be used in sacrifice, that similar purity was expected in the physical form of the worshipers. Or maybe they just didn't want to have to deal with the sight of them.
But to focus on just the nose thing, pull an "Egyptians Unwelcome" explanation out of thin air, and ignore the rest of her list while calling her pitiful is... well, pitiful.
You do understand that only the levites could enter the temple right? (go beyond the court yards) The temple was not a church very few if any common jews were ever allowed to see the inner temple. (the points in which the levitical priests and the requirements of pureity are demanded.)
Yes, I understand. Do you understand that the Levites were an entire tribe? Thousands of people. Those who were not Kohanim (priests) served as other forms of worker in the Temple. Levite children were not allowed to become priests or serve any other role in the Temple if they were in any way deformed... because, apparently, God is a dick.
But God isn't real. It was the Levite priests (and other Kohanim) who made up the rules that said nobody who was physically deformed could be among their number, or worship in the Temple.
And here's the kicker: you're now asserting that they had enough information about people to tell if they were legitimate Levites or not (or otherwise entitled to enter)... which is probably so. This begs the question of why you'd make up that BS about Egyptians "sneaking in" for the gold, etc.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
