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To: Solon who wrote (7435)	6/15/2010 7:12:53 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

If Swannie really meant "If it's in the Bible then it's true" then maybe it does need to be replaced. God only knows where these freethinking bible thumpers come from! I know it's true - the bible tells me so. 1) The Old Testament book of Deuteronomy (22:20-21) notes that if a woman be found not to be a virgin, ". . . then they shall bring the damsel to the door of her father's house and the men of the city shall stone her with stones that she die." 1) Exodus 20:17 and 22:16-17 declares as law that if a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed (thus damaging the father's property)-he (the rapist) shall marry her. (Can you imagine having to marry your rapist?!) If the father doesn't wish this, the rapist shall pay money equivalent to the marriage/bride price for virgins. 3) Job a 5:4: "How can he be clean that is born of woman?" 4) Leviticus 12:1-2, 5: And the Lord spake unto Moses saying: speak unto the children of Israel, saying: if a woman be delivered, "... and bear a man-child then she shall be unclean for seven days .... But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean for two weeks..." 5) In 1847, a British obstetrician, Dr. Simpson, used chloroform as an anesthetic in delivering a baby. A scandal followed, and the holy men of the Church of England prohibited the use of anesthetic in childbirth, citing Genesis 3:16: "God said to woman Eve, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pain in childbearing. In pain thou shalt bring forth children ... and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee. " 6) Ecclesiastes 7:26-28: "I find a woman more bitter than death; she is a snare, her heart a net, her arms are chains. No wickedness comes anywhere near the wickedness of a woman. May a sinner's lot be hers." 7) New Testament: I Corinthians 11:7-9: Man is the image of God ... whereas woman reflects the glory of man. For man did not originally spring from woman, but woman was made out of man; and man was not created for woman's sake, but woman for the sake of man. 8) I Timothy 2:9-12,15: I desire that "women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly ... not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire ... Let a woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent. Yet women will be saved through bearing children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness, with modesty." 9) I Corinthians r+3 3-36: It is shameful for a woman to speak in church. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord. Women are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate. If there is anything they desire to know, let them ask their husbands at home.