That's what I meant: some things in the Bible are allegory, some are tales told to impart certain lessons on the listeners, and some relate to cultural values that may not be necessary/relevant with modern technology/civilization (such as 'don't wear clothing with more than two types of materials" when modern T-shirts can have 3 or more by themselves).
some relate to cultural values that may not be necessary/relevant with modern technology/civilization (such as 'don't wear clothing with more than two types of materials" when modern T-shirts can have 3 or more by themselves).
There's a skin condition known as textile dermatitis, a condition often caused by clothing made out of two or more types of material (usually synthetic, i.e. man-made).
Give these people clothing made of 100% cotton or 100% wool and those problems almost always go away.
I'm not obsessed but Levis and cotton T-shirts meet the Biblical standards, so who am I to complain?
Huh, neat. That explains why it was in the Bible: by making it a common tendency in the whole group, it would make it easier to accommodate the people with the skin condition.
My point was just to keep your head calm and your information sources spread out, to help minimize the risk of falling into Groupthink. You can be a devout Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or any other religion, but try to avoid becoming ultra-zealous like the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, Scientologists, Al-Qaeda, or other cults.
That's what I meant: some things in the Bible are allegory, some are tales told to impart certain lessons on the listeners, and some relate to cultural values that may not be necessary/relevant with modern technology/civilization (such as 'don't wear clothing with more than two types of materials" when modern T-shirts can have 3 or more by themselves).
If you take it all literally, you can become too obsessed with it, like the people who were so obsessed with Star Wars that they created a real-life religion based on the Jedi Order after people listed their religion as "Jedi" on the 2001 census.
There's a skin condition known as textile dermatitis, a condition often caused by clothing made out of two or more types of material (usually synthetic, i.e. man-made).
Give these people clothing made of 100% cotton or 100% wool and those problems almost always go away.
I'm not obsessed but Levis and cotton T-shirts meet the Biblical standards, so who am I to complain?
Huh, neat. That explains why it was in the Bible: by making it a common tendency in the whole group, it would make it easier to accommodate the people with the skin condition.
My point was just to keep your head calm and your information sources spread out, to help minimize the risk of falling into Groupthink. You can be a devout Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or any other religion, but try to avoid becoming ultra-zealous like the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, Scientologists, Al-Qaeda, or other cults.