11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 12 then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
I read a commentary on these verses which said that the punishment was not meant to be taken literally--that, in fact, the woman would first be given a chance to pay a fine, and that only if she couldn't--or, presumably, wouldn't--pay the fine would her hand actually be cut off. Much better, eh? Thus sayeth the Lord.
I wonder what the fundamentalists do with this kind of thing. The world was created in six 24 hour days, the world is 6,000 years old, Jesus died but got better, & if a woman tries to help her husband when he's fighting another man & grabs the other man's balls or dick she should pay a fine or have her hand cut off. All good?
Cool.
2 comments:
Although I'm not really qualified to speak on behalf of fundamentalists, I'm going to guess they either:
1)Look forward to the day they control the government and can make this the law of the land (thus sayeth the lord), or
2)Would defer to a church authority for the correct answer (lead me, great shepherd), or
3)Would be confounded by the passage and begin speaking in tongues, or
4)Something else, predicated on, "He works in mysterious ways."
Your question leads into something that has been occupying my mind for a while: why is this American population so exceptionally stupid? We are off global charts,in the "developed" world, with our belief in creationism, global warming is a hoax, etc.
Is it the nature of empire? Geography? The great power of our propaganda system? Our fragmentation and isolation that drives us to worship church, so as to belong to something? Our lack of history in this land, driving us to irrational tribalism and racism? Why are we so deferential to authority--government, military, religion?
Or are we not as exceptional in our ignorance as it seems to me we are?
Just give me the answer, Brother K, and I will not question it.
Brother C, good to see you here! I have come to the same conclusion as you: we are a massively stupid society. Chomsky talked about how the U.S. o A. is the most heavily indoctrinated country in the history of the world, and I suspect that's the root explanation. Maintaining a high dose of indoctrination requires the miseducation of the young on a grand scale--people who think ask questions, after all--and I would guess that about finishes it off. i am also open to conspiracy theories involving fluoridation of the water, EMPS, or the virtual banning of known intelligence raising staples such as cigarettes, 60s era tv shows, and Beeman's chewing gum.
There ya go, my friend! Now follow me. But first, leave your money is this basket for safe-keeping while we walkabout.
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