(August 19, 2024 at 1:10 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You ever cut your finger and lick the wound, FM?
Yeah, whenever I cut my finger I let Boru lick it.
But seriously, I don't lick my wounds because I don't have taste for blood and because it's not good considering there are bacteria in mouth that are not good to enter the bloodstream. Thus some babies get syphilis and die.
And it's also interesting that in the Hebrew Bible saliva is associated with uncleanliness.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"