itis, dont you find all these quotes just a little stange??
And in case a man should sell his daughter as a slave girl, she will not go out in the way that the slave men go out.
God advocates fathers selling their duaghteres as slaves
a sabbath of complete rest to Jehovah. Anybody doing work on it will be put to death.
The death penalty for working? A bit harsh no??
No man of your seed throughout their generations in whom there proves to be a defect may come near to present the bread of his God. 18 In case there is any man in whom there is a defect, he may not come near: a man blind or lame or with his nose slit or with one member too long, 19 or a man in whom there proves to be a fracture of the foot or a fracture of the hand, 20 or hunchback or thin or diseased in his eyes or scabby or having ringworms or having his testicles broken.
Surely a God who created everything should know that blind, lame or disabled people are not unclean... God seems here to be discriminating
And here he is charging her with notorious deeds, saying: "I have found your daughter does not have evidence of virginity." Now this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they must spread out the mantle before the older men of the city.
They spread out his daughter's virginity in front of the older men of the city?? WTF!!!
"No man castrated by crushing the testicles or having his male member cut off may come into the congregation of Jehovah.
Again, what is this rule for?... its all good and well to say "to keep Jehovah's organisation clean"... but clean from what exactly.. are these people physically or morally dirty??
2 "No illegitimate son may come into the congregation of Jehovah. Even to the tenth generation none of his may come into the congregation of Jehovah.
God doesnt punish the sons for the sins of the father... well, he does, but he only punishes 10 generations of the sinners offspring... 11 generations would be a bit too much...
The WTS and most other fundamentalist religions conveniently forget or ignore these little scriptures... in fact sometimes they even excuse them, or say something like:
"What did Jehovah really mean when he said that he'd mutilate and murder those who wear two fabrics interwoven?...... we need to remember that it is impossible for Jehovah to act unjustly. For him to do so would be unloving, and we know from our study of the Bible as a whole that God is love...... (bla-di-bla-blaa)...... Likely Jehovah may have seen some selfish, unclean motive in the hearts of people who wear two fabrics interwoven...... we can see then, that obviously this is to be viewed in a figurative way..."
dorayakii - of the "admittedly a slightly embellished example" class
