First post in MGCBTSOOYG!! w00t you can tell Im not religious.

19:19. Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.

I was at a friends house, and I read this...in the book that I read it in, it was worded much differently...there was no way to mistake it for cattle, more like humans.

Someone care to explain further? I asked a "holy" friend of mine and she said some bullshit about not letting your animals you own alone because they will breed all the time and soon you will have hundreds of animals.

I wish I knew the wording that the book I read had it in.

Sounds like you have a stupid friend who owns an even stupider book.

Racial distinction is even lower than subspecies, so I don't think interracial breeding is against any "your own kind" book.

If the book that you read it in was different, then somewhere along the line there was a mistranslation. I mean, only one of the versions (if either) is the "true" one (at least the "original" one) - meaning it might not have been directed towards humans, but somewhere along the line someone decided it was, and put it in there themselves. When that happens, shit gets more confusing.

(Okay, so I'm basically just speaking the painstakingly obvious here... ignore that.)

I also think it probably speaks more towards being against beastiality rather than interracial relationships.

I'm curious if there are any biblical literalists out there that simply refuse to wear 90% polyester and 10% cotton shirts...

I'm curious if there are any biblical literalists out there that simply refuse to wear 90% polyester and 10% cotton shirts...

I'd be interest to see if there was even a single literalist out there who was genuinely humble...

The Bible is not an authoritative source.

All races are still considered homo sapien. The differences are akin to angus cattle fucking black and white moo cows. Taken this literally a red headed person should only fuck red headed people.

Even IF the bible meant do not breed with other races....the bible is wrong. For an example of shit the bible tells you to do that you should not do: Look up the bible's cure for leprosy:

(14:2-52)
"This shall be the law of the leper."
God's law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly away. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally find another pair of birds. Kill one and dip the live bird in the dead bird's blood. Wipe some blood on the patient's right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle the house with blood 7 times. That's all there is to it.

The bible is a waste of time to read b/c it is filled with 95% such bullshit as this. Not time well spent to get 5% of the information that MAY be useful on a philosophical level.

^If that much. I'd say all the useful stuff would fit on a page of notebook paper, and the best of it would fit on a file card.

If you want to know what usually happens when two different species mate together look up hybrid vigor.

First post in MGCBTSOOYG!! w00t you can tell Im not religious.

19:19. Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.

I was at a friends house, and I read this...in the book that I read it in, it was worded much differently...there was no way to mistake it for cattle, more like humans.

Someone care to explain further? I asked a "holy" friend of mine and she said some bullshit about not letting your animals you own alone because they will breed all the time and soon you will have hundreds of animals.

I wish I knew the wording that the book I read had it in.

Its talking about cattle. Have you not seen Mule's and how they are unable to mate/concieve?

The Bible is not an authoritative source.

Yes it is.

If the Bible is an authoritative source, then so it any random book I pull off the shelf.

Ok, so apparently "Spock's World" is an authoritative source.

^If that much. I'd say all the useful stuff would fit on a page of notebook paper, and the best of it would fit on a file card.

Oh..... But.... My Bible's full of cool shit....

Like the bar bet that God and Satan made about Job--God fucked him over again and again for no good reason, and ended up pulling a half-baked power trip when Job dared to ask WTF. That was pretty cool.

And the instructions about when it is proper to sell one's daughter into slavery, or when it is okay to kill your own slave, or when you can only maim his ass. (See Exodus.) Yep, that was cool.

Or when some kids made fun of a prophet, so God sent a bunch of bears to rip the little rascals into bloody scraps. Way cool.

Mark Twain got it right when he observed that the Bible contains "some noble poetry, a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

Like the bar bet that God and Satan made about Job--God fucked him over again and again for no good reason, and ended up pulling a half-baked power trip when Job dared to ask WTF. That was pretty cool.

And the instructions about when it is proper to sell one's daughter into slavery, or when it is okay to kill your own slave, or when you can only maim his ass. (See Exodus.) Yep, that was cool.

Or when some kids made fun of a prophet, so God sent a bunch of bears to rip the little rascals into bloody scraps. Way cool.

Mark Twain got it right when he observed that the Bible contains "some noble poetry, a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

Can you provide quotes/references where your examples of The Bible's supposed inadequacies?

I have a feeling you may be bullshitting.

Like the bar bet that God and Satan made about Job--God fucked him over again and again for no good reason, and ended up pulling a half-baked power trip when Job dared to ask WTF. That was pretty cool.

And the instructions about when it is proper to sell one's daughter into slavery, or when it is okay to kill your own slave, or when you can only maim his ass. (See Exodus.) Yep, that was cool.

Or when some kids made fun of a prophet, so God sent a bunch of bears to rip the little rascals into bloody scraps. Way cool.

Mark Twain got it right when he observed that the Bible contains "some noble poetry, a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."

Dude, you're missing out on the whole point of the Old Testament if you miss out on all the power-trip macho bullshit. I mean, it's fucking non-stop battles, rapine, pillage, murder; shit's like a bunch of wacked out pirates.

And that's not paying attention to all the trippy shit.

And THEN you get the nice relaxed sequel, minor plot twist, but the stories told from a bunch of perspectives leading you into considering what the overall message shown by the combined perspectives is, and then extracting all the truth you can to make some kind of truth juice.

Poetry, obscenity and lies sell.