Love me or else (Part Two) (Where is it now?)

by David Turell , Friday, December 21, 2012, 20:23 (4143 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:The relevance of this to our discussion is that no matter what kind of punishment is threatened, I find no comfort in a religion that orders me to love God (my understanding of love, not yours) or an almighty power will punish me. - Be good, there is reward; be bad there is punishment. This is the level of handling young children, and attests to the mental level of the population when all of this was written. We have grown up since then. we are not sacrificing our kids to Baal. The bible's admonitions must be taken with that in mind. The current Rabbis and Talmudists have commentaries that correct for the ancient bias in the writings. We should all work from that approach, not the bold statements that were meant for 2,000 years ago.