21 Mar '17 14:13>
Originally posted by SuzianneIt's too bad the tales in the bible are not taken today as allegory. The WW flood tale is so full of holes a modern 10 year old can spot them. And it seems clear to me the 'man=50 shekels, woman=30 shekels' bit was not done by a god either. Just a way to put it in stone that THIS religion puts men on top. It wasn't always that way, the ancient Minoins had women on top politically and it was the advent of the warriers who conquered those older cultures that men were on top in later religions and Judaism and Christianity and Islam followed that one right down the line. Islam took that to a whole other level, where a woman reporting rape is arrested and raped again in jail and so forth.
Man, over time, has been pretty bad, and mostly to each other. (By the way, your "you bad humans, you need to stop your party ways and start worshiping me again" is exactly what God said to the Hebrews and why He brought them to and through the Babylonian Exile, but that is another story. (They have had a long history of 'not listening'. ) )
I agree th ...[text shortened]... ping" involved, just people not really "getting it", and on both sides of the "belief" equation.