re: #18 kreyagg

There are passages in the Pentateuch that clearly call for the summary executions of polytheists and homosexuals. I will gamble that you either ignore or choose to “reinterpret” those passages so you don’t wind up in prison. In fact, I’m sure that you are pleased that you don’t have to obey those passages either.

There’s no reason why you can’t choose to to do that with other passages of you holy book, if for no other reason to learn to treat or beings a little more humanely.

We don’t need “experts” like you to tell us how to interpret our own scriptures. That is why we have a huge body of literature going back millennia analyzing the meaning of every sentence and word, not because you like to imagine that you are the most “moral” and “humane” generation who ever existed in the history of the human race.

Why don’t you provide an example from the last 2000 years of recorded history of Jews practicing summary executions of polytheists and homosexuals.

I can provide an example of bigoted intolerance of the self-proclaimed “superior enlightened ones” without even leaving this thread.