(September 9, 2013 at 4:18 pm)Drich Wrote: Do you have any idea of what 50 shekels amounted to? no one knows for sure but it was a king's ransom for sure. (Christ was sold out for only 30 shekels. 1500 years later) With that same 30 Judas' 'resting place' was purchased.
The 80 shekels was a deterrent. and if one could not pay he would have been sold into slavery till he could pay off his debt.
Without proper context, I agree it seems like a pittance. In context it is something to be feared.
Your god charges a fine, and the woman is then forced to live with her rapist. You think this is the best an omniscient deity could come up with?
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
