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 Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:26 pm
In the story of sodom and gomorrah. Lot offers his daughters to the men outside to protect the visitors. Why would he do that?
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:39 pm
Ummmm... It happened a couple thousand years ago, and isn't all that important to the story. Besides, his own daughters had sex with him to get pregnant, so I would think that they wanted to go out??? confused
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:27 am
@Ryoko: Semi-religious laws of hospitality back then demanded the protection of guests above all else.
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:53 am
Even above your own family?
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:44 am
Above your family and yourself. Above duty, love, life and personal honour. To extend your hospitality to someone was seen as something holy and sacred, and you had a duty to your guests.
Although in Arabia, that was only necessary if they ate salt under your roof, in which case they weren't allowed to harm you and you had to do all in your power to protect them.
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:21 pm
I actually don't know! Which book was that in? I've not read the whole Bible yet... sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:27 am
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Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 12:59 pm
Not too mention that they didn't really care about women in those days... The very first Christians were as friendly to women as the KKK to black people...
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 12:23 am
It's not so much that they were unkind to them. They just thought of them as inferior. Eve the Rib-Woman saw to that.
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Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 6:37 pm
Gotta love a religion that writes a reason to hate and put down women directly into the opening lines of it's teachings.
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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:19 am
Well, if you look in the Kabbalah, you'll find stories of Lilith, Adam's first wife. She was (by her own approximation) Adam's equal, and Adam complained to the Almighty, and she was cast out of Eden.
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 6:28 pm
Galad Damodred Well, if you look in the Kabbalah, you'll find stories of Lilith, Adam's first wife. She was (by her own approximation) Adam's equal, and Adam complained to the Almighty, and she was cast out of Eden. "God, Lilith is tryign to be my equal!! crying can you get me somethign a little more submissive?"
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:01 am
Exactly. Which is why there is now a Jewish feminist magazine called Lilith.
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:42 am
I thought Lilith was just a legend.
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 7:39 pm
umm i thought all religion was just a legend.
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