Alpha: "Men were also unclean for having ejaculations (Leviticus 15)."
"And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not."
Only xianity could stoop as low as to making people feel ashamed of something as natural as their own bodies and sexuality. Before, people embraced it. Now they're afraid of it. In polytheism women were considered the "center of magical energy" and were celebrated for their sexuality. It was a beautiful thing, nothing to be ashamed of.
"Jesus said that slaves should obey their masters. But that does not mean Jesus endorsed slavery."
Fine, jesus condoned dehumanization of people by implying that it was okay to beat a servant that did not comply with his master's will, supressing his "inalienable" right to be treated like a person deserving of hapiness and pleasure. Why not take a position for the "little guy," rather than condone their abuse from elitist snobs who treated humans of lesser wealth as inferior. I thought jesus, if anything, came to lead "the Way", instead of adhereing to the laws which we now know are wrong and unfair. Why did jesus adhere to the "slavery law," yet enccouraged his followers to STEAL colts and such, for his own whim. Eventually, many countries abandoned slavery and allowed it's citizens to have equal rights.
Looks like Man caught on to what was good for Man after all. Too bad jesus didn't enlighten us.
The last of my biblical quotes were taken from the Apocrypha. Teachings not accepted by most xtians supposedly because they are of "dubious" orgin, or perhaps because xtians already have enough scriptures to choose to interpret figuratively, symbolically, literally, whatever, to make clarifications where their "holy" books only leave contradictions which often makes xtians contradict one another, thus leaving those whom they like to try to convert and other "nonbelievers" in even further confusion. "Ecclesiastics of the Apocrypha does not appear in most Bibles. However, in Catholic Bibles, the inferiority of woman still appears in the verses of Ecclesiastic"