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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I always took that as dietary laws because they weren't knowledgeable enough about the dangers of red tide, so they just banned shellfish.
The whole thing with a lot of the OT, is that it was written for a primitive society and has little to do with us today. Probably ditto for the NT as well other than the sayings of Jesus which are more timeless.
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Yeah, that's exactly the point. Societal norms have changed over thousands of years. The Bible says outright that getting a tattoo or eating shellfish is an abomination, yet those concepts seem ridiculously outdated to our modern standards. So why do some people pick and choose certain elements from the Bible to be discarded but others that must be followed? People are simply using an ancient scripture to justify their shameless, unabashed bigotry. Using the Bible to justify descrimination against homosexuals is no different than anti-abolitionsts in the 19th century using the Bible to justify owning slaves.
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Slave owners claimed that slavery was a positive good for masters and slaves alike, and that it was explicitly sanctioned by God. Biblical arguments were made in defense of slavery by religious leaders such as the Rev. Fred A. Ross and political leaders such as Jefferson Davis. There were Southern biblical interpretations that directly contradicted those of the abolitionists, such as the theory that a curse on Noah's son Ham and his descendants in Africa was a justification for enslavement of blacks.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism#United_States