(May 5, 2015 at 1:50 pm)abaris Wrote: ...it's utterly appaling that a lot of people still try to follow that kind of desert dwelling Iron Age legislation to the letter.
Who said anything about a desert? Ahh...the lush green hills of Canaan. And malleable, low-melting bronze did fine until General Pompey blew in from Italy about 63 BCE.
(May 5, 2015 at 1:54 pm)dahrling Wrote: So why do you still follow it?
(May 5, 2015 at 2:36 pm)robvalue Wrote: ...Please reformat your religion and start again.
Christianity can't seem to shake off the "literalists" and "legalists" who cling to its body like fleas. The issue is probably supposed to be more one of preserving a precious text tradition that has been handed down to us, not following everything to the letter. But unfortunately, the literalists encoded all the rules on one of those shiny CD ROMs to foil reformatting! Of course we don't want to alter the text itself, but we should read it with some brains regarding its provenance and its meaning in a modern world where understandings have progressed over the last 2000 years.
