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From: "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com>
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Subject: Re: Freedom From Religion Foundation - Bible Quiz
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:08:26 +0000 (UTC)
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> Uncle Davey,
>
> Why you would even try to twist out of this one is beyond me. Even if it
is
> not the "official" ten commandments, God still is credited for this list.
> How putting "Thou shalt worship no other God" in the same list as "don't
> boil baby goats in their mom's milk" is supposed to make any sense,
> especially supposedly coming from the almighty alpha and omega ulitmate
> omniscient omnipotent being, is beyond me.
>
> WTF does God care about such things? REALLY? If you say that maybe there
> is some health ramification of boiling a kid in goats milk, note that it
> doesn't say not to boil the kid in goats milk. It says don't boil it in
its
> _own_mother's_ milk. Maybe some biochemists out there can tell us a
reason
> why there would be a difference between its mom's milk and some other
goat's
> milk... cause I can't imagine what it would be. And if its not for health
> reasons, then it just seems like a really arbitrary thing for The Almighty
> to take the time to speak up on. Especially when he did not speak up on
> important issues like abortion, democratization, and being against
slavery.
> Could it be that this is just a snapshot of the bronze age customs of a
> small group of herdsmen rather than the COMMAND OF THE MOST HIGH?
>
I don't know, but maybe it was an expression for "don't add insult to
injury".
Uncle Davey
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