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Originally Posted by downquark1
The trouble is the Abraham religions and some others are based around ideas that have suppose to have come from an all knowing being.
Read Leviticus. It has some examples of cherry picking morals. There's a lot of good advice in there, such as personal hygene and not eating animals that died suspeciously, but there's also the odd thing about stoning spirit talkers, taking slaves etc. All which have supposed to have been relayed directly from god.
If you openly admit these principles have changed you undermine divine authority. Naturally the principles can be adapted but this will split the organised religion into seperate philosophies and undermine good religious work or destroy the tyranical mind hold. Whatever your point of view.
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So why do modern day Christians not adhere to the laws that were laid down by Leviticus?
If these were set down by God then surely they must follow these?
You ask any Christian about Leviticus and you can see how uncomfortable they are with the whole thing. Very rarely will they concede defeat because that would be denouncing their religion in their view, but they seem to simply adopt a selective memory when it comes to Leviticus and other aspects of the old testament, preferring to concentrate on The New Testament when God seemed altogether more decent.
The standard response to explain the Old Testament atrocities is usually to state that God 'mellowed' when Jesus arrived and made things good between God and man(or some twaddle along those lines).