Yesterday, I found myself in a discussion about the anti-abortion people. The reason: It\u2019s just incomprehensible to us that people get so zealous about that issue that they\u2019ll go as far as to murder doctors who perform abortions and bomb abortion clinics.<\/span> Yesterday, I found myself in a discussion about the anti-abortion people. The reason: It\u2019s just incomprehensible to us that people get so zealous about that issue that they\u2019ll go as far as to murder doctors who perform abortions and bomb abortion clinics.The conversation then took its natural turn to selective, self-serving interpretations of the Bible\u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
The conversation then took its natural turn to selective, self-serving interpretations of the Bible\u2026 finding a few verses that you can use to justify a position that lets you impose your morality on someone, and riding those verses hard and fast for the rest of your life.\u00a0<\/span>
So I thought it\u2019d be a good time to find a bunch of stuff that the Bible bans\u2026 stuff that\u2019s a lot LESS convenient. Don\u2019t worry, though\u2026 just because I\u2019m pointing it out, that doesn\u2019t mean you now have to follow it. It\u2019s a lot easier to keep discriminating against gay people for no particular reason than to stop eating bacon, after all.\u00a0<\/span>
Here are 11 things that are technically banned by the Bible. (All quotes are translations from the New American Standard Bible, but, because I\u2019m actually trying to maintain serious journalistic integrity here, I cross-referenced several other translations to make sure I wasn\u2019t missing the point.)<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/span>Round haircuts.<\/b>\u00a0See you in Hell, Beatles\u2026 and\/or kids with bowl cuts, surfer cuts or (my favorite) butt cuts. Leviticus 19:27 reads \u201c<\/span>You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads<\/span>\u00a0nor harm the edges of your beard.\u201d<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/span>Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"