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Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do

From Bill Steele <skeptix@lists.opn.org>
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Subject Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do
Date 2017-02-11 20:58 +0000
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> On Feb 4, 2017, at 9:46 AM, jet foncannon <bolumanis@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Recently, I greeted one of two Jehovah Witnesses who showed up on my 
porch with the question, "Isn't that a wool and polyester suit you're 
wearing?"


To which, if they had properly studied the Bible, they could have 
responded, “The Bible only prohibits mixing linen and wool."

I always wondered about that, so I looked,it up today. Seems the high 
priest wore a headless made of linen and wool, so nobody else was allowed 
to do that. Maybe somebody had decided that it conferred  special powers.

Comes in a long series about not mixing things: Don’t mix seeds a field; 
don’t breed,different animals together. Sounds like good agricultural 
practice. Probably the best way to get people to do things right wast to 
say ”because God said so.” Kind of like speed limits.




Bill Steele
ws21@cornell.edu

Suppose you were a member of Congress, and suppose you were an idiot. . 
.but I repeat myself.

                                                  ---Mark Twain



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Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Rick Moen <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-04 01:33 +0000
  Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Jet Foncannon <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-05 14:36 +0000
    Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Bill Steele <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-11 20:58 +0000
      Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do BillK <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-11 21:08 +0000
  Re: Ten Regular Things The Bible Bans But We Still Do Bill Steele <skeptix@lists.opn.org> - 2017-02-11 20:54 +0000

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