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This is the 21st century, not the 15th. A close reading of the Bible exposes so many terrible moral actions by the Christian god and his "good" people that there is little that can be said to be "immoral".  Slavery, selling children, genocide, incest, child abuse, rape, kidnapping, and homosexuality are all accepted behaviors in parts of the Bible--if you don't know that, then you are not the Bible scholar you think you are.


Now that women outnumber men on this planet are you advocating that they engage in plural marriage so that they can stay home?


As far as homosexuality goes, let's all remember when mental illness was condemned by the Christians as demon possession and the poor bastards were beaten and tortured to drive out the demons. Let's remember too when the Christians said that being left-handed was an indication of a person having been touched by the Devil.  What about the doctrine that said women didn't have souls?  That dark skin was the Mark of Cain?  That alcoholism was just moral turpitude?  How about the wonderful test to prove whether a woman had commited adultery in Numbers 5:11-31? 


Don't come to me with the Bible as your source of authority when I know that the contents of the Bible were VOTED on in the Council of Nicea, that one of the most vitriolic debates was whether Jesus was even Devine.  Remember, you said that you believe what's easy to believe.


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