(March 17, 2014 at 7:59 am)xpastor Wrote: Fucking livestock was also prohibited in the same passage. Homosexuals were to be stoned. Both the human and the animal were to be burnt alive. The ancient Israelites seemed to be aware of both men and women having sex with animals, but not aware of lesbian relations between women.
I think that it's more likely that the men that wrote the bible just didn't mind lesbians, so they didn't bother mentioning it.
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
