Drich Wrote:'rules' (how ever foolish) are created for one purpose. To alter the behavior of a given people.
If there was a 'rule' it is because there was also a habitual problem with people doing whatever 'stupid' thing you want to make fun of now.
God did not create these rules just because. He created them because at that time in that culture the rules He passed down stemmed off a societal problem.
It doesn't matter why god made them. It's the fact that they're ridiculous that's the problem. Sure, rape may very well have been a problem, but does buying the victim for fifty shekels of silver sound like a solution an omniscient deity would propose?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
