(December 7, 2011 at 2:57 am)happyinfidel Wrote: I like the red wine suggestion; not so much therapy- you need that more than I; Humanistic Jew seems an oxymoron, please enlighten me- no insult intended.
How do you deal with the bible's contradictions, cruelty, misogyny, paternalism, absurdities, etc, etc? Or should that be the Torah? (excuse my ignorance, raised a protestant). One of my favourite stories is the Gadarene swine; as Dawkins said, why did this loving god deprive an innocent Jewish farmer of his livelihood? Hilarious, isn't it?
It has been estimated (from bible study) that this same god murdered, or ordered murdered, some 2.4 million of his people.
Nice one, god! How sad that well educated people insist this drivel is factual.
I don't "deal" with them.
It's only as oxymoronic as having been raised in a religion/people with a long history and cultural heritage, but not believing any of it came about because of God.
The Torah, and the New Testament of course, is a collection of Aesop fables. Opening my Tanakh is like opening Bullfinch's mythology (though a good deal more boring in a lot of cases).
Also, I was being sarcastic about the therapy. I need a warning label.
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