Just got these from a feature on the Daily Mirror site (www.mirror.co.uk) about strange bible-based rules. Anybody know what the WT's take on any of these are (and if the WT flouts any of them, even though it claims to follow the bible as god's true word). I know the following quotes probably aren't taken from the NWT version, but I suppose they would be along the same lines.......
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 has some bad news for wayward sons:
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son... then shall his father and his mother... bring him unto the elders of his city... And all men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die.
Prince Harry and Euan Blair, take note!
Proverbs 23:13 takes the saying: "Spare the rod, spoil the child" just that little bit further:
Withhold not correction from the child - for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
In other words, beatings don't kill kids.
Ephesians 5:22 sounds as though it could have been written by Bernard Manning:
Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife.
AND according to 1 Timothy 2:11-12, female teachers could soon be getting their P45s:
Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no women to teach or have authority over a man.
Exodus 35:2 says Sunday workers should be executed:
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whosoever doeth work there-in shall be put to death.
ACCORDING to Leviticus 25:44, if you're a heathen, a life of service awaits:
Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of
the heathen that are round about you: of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Deuteronomy 15:17 tells you how to mark your property:
Thou shalt take an awl (wooden nail) and thrust it through his ear... and he shall be thy servant forever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
IF you are an adulterer, at least (Deuteronomy 22:22) you and your lover will die together:
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman and the woman.
THIS is Leviticus 18:19 saying: "Not tonight, dear, she's got a headache":
Thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
Deuteronomy 23:25 has a no-sharps rule:
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand, but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
Leviticus 11:7-8 tells us not to touch the skin of pigs:
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven footed, yet her cheweth the cud, he is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat and their carcase shall ye not touch. They are unclean to you.
Perhaps this is why goalkeepers decided to wear gloves.
SHELLFISH such as oysters, mussels and cockles are a no-no, says Leviticus 11:11:
Whatsoever hath no fins or scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
THINK twice, ladies, before you break up that fight, if Deuteronomy 25:11 is to be believed:
When men fight together and the wife of one of them comes near to drag her husband clear of his opponent, if she puts out her hands and catches hold of the man's genitals, you shall cut off her hand and show her no mercy.
Leviticus 21:9 has a chilling warning for vicars' daughters:
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father. She should be burned with fire.
Leviticus 12:1-8 declares that a woman is unclean for 33 days after giving birth to a boy and for 66 days after giving birth to a girl.
And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, not come into the sanctuary until the day of her purifying be fulfilled.
But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation and she shall continue in her blood of her purifying three-score and six days.
SORRY, boys, you're all for the chop, according to Leviticus 12:3:
And on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin should be removed.
Leviticus 19:19 is no fan of cross-breeding, modern farming or Marks & Spencer (well-known for its colourful Lycra mixes):
You shall not allow two different kinds of beasts to mate together. You shall not plant your field with two kinds of seed. You shall not wear a garment woven with two kinds of yarn.
IF Leviticus 19:27-8 has its way, gentlemen's barbers and tattoo parlours could soon be out of business:
You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads, nor harm the edges of your beard... you should not tattoo yourselves.
AND here's what will happen if you disobey, says Leviticus 26:14-16:
I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that shall waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you shall sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies shall eat it up.
You have been warned...