"Gus" wrote in message
oups.com...

Well, whatever the translation it's still what Moses told his people
about 3000 years ago in a totally different kind of society and I think
it is meant as history, not instructions for today. Today, we have the
kinder and gentler New Testament and the Golden Rule. :-)

Yeah, and it's mostly PG-rated. You can read that stuff to the kids, like
_The Cat in the Hat_.

The hard-bitten holy rollers like to take a good nip of the Old Testament
from time to time. I think they get their rocks off on it. A good, honest
Hebrew translation, with none of that wimpy Latin translation in the middle,
would be hard pressed to get an R rating.

As a famous American Patriot once said,

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the
cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which
more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we
called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It . . . has served to
corrupt and brutalize mankind." - Thomas Paine

That's a book that can really feed the soul of a compassionate conservative.
d8-)

--
Ed Huntress