we have public education…? …why can’t we get rid of religion?
I was just thinking about that passage in the Old Testament where it says eating shellfish is a sin. Religious people defend this by saying, “They were a primitive desert culture back then; they didn’t have refrigeration and food preservatives so eating shellfish was potentially life threatening for them, so the bible was being used to keep people alive.” Sure, sounds plausible and puts the Old Testament in a good light, for once.
The thing is, now that we do have refrigeration and food preservatives and we do know about salmonella and other bacteria in seafood that makes people sick, we don’t need this archaic biblical instruction that eating shellfish is a sin. We don’t need this primitive form of public education because we have modern education and modern information broadcast technology. So if this is the bible’s only good quality, then it’s a quality that is vastly surpassed by modern technology; it’s like a horse drawn wagon on a freeway! Why can’t we just get rid of this archaic form of public education?
I was just thinking about that passage in the Old Testament where it says eating shellfish is a sin. Religious people defend this by saying, “They were a primitive desert culture back then; they didn’t have refrigeration and food preservatives so eating shellfish was potentially life threatening for them, so the bible was being used to keep people alive.” Sure, sounds plausible and puts the Old Testament in a good light, for once.
The thing is, now that we do have refrigeration and food preservatives and we do know about salmonella and other bacteria in seafood that makes people sick, we don’t need this archaic biblical instruction that eating shellfish is a sin. We don’t need this primitive form of public education because we have modern education and modern information broadcast technology. So if this is the bible’s only good quality, then it’s a quality that is vastly surpassed by modern technology; it’s like a horse drawn wagon on a freeway! Why can’t we just get rid of this archaic form of public education?