Here is a documentary from history channel about how what we call as the Bible came about... Whether you believe in religion or not I think it is a very informative documentary since

Someone mentioned the book of Leviticus on the other thread. I love the fact that people can freely discuss research findings and share scholarly opinions freely without raising the issue of blasphemy like that we see in the Middle East.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCroKsfUog

Here is a documentary from history channel about how what we call as the Bible came about... Whether you believe in religion or not I think it is a very informative documentary since

Someone mentioned the book of Leviticus on the other thread. I love the fact that people can freely discuss research findings and share scholarly opinions freely without raising the issue of blasphemy like that we see in the Middle East.

http://m.youtube.com...h?v=MDCroKsfUog

Reality check!! Try that in the Town Square of a small Kansas town. I pick on Kansas not because it is the only state, just a good example of the Heartland which tries to push Creationism in the schools as they push Science and inconvenient History out. You could name Texas or Nebraska or...

I'm not indicting everyone in those states but there are plenty to hold blasphemy 'fire side chats' and elect politicians who attempt to act to remove 'undesirable influences' from the school curriculum.

But Oz would be offended don't you think? After all it's where our Dorothy comes from...

But Oz would be offended don't you think? After all it's where our Dorothy comes from...

Oz actually comes from east of those plains, his shoes notwithstanding. Nevertheless, he grew up in the Bible Belt and knows first-hand that what I speak is not without merit.

As another piece of evidence that many of our fundamentalists are not that different from those in the Middle East, consider what the GOP and it's base tried to do to women in this last election -- nothing short of preventing women from controlling their own lives, bodies and reproduction choices. Sure, their intolerance was embedded in western culture which doesn't have the same sharp edges as the east. But the spirit of subjugation was there just the same. The same certainly holds for homosexuals too.

Such are the 'enlightened readers' of Leviticus.

Here's a little video on the Bible I quite enjoyed...

Well funny thing is that what seems to be the suppression of women's rights has so also existed in other societies and cultures with a different religion other than Christianity. The suppression of women in the past was product of inaffordability and limited resources of the past, not necessarily it originated from religion. Although religion has played a role in supporting social and economic needs to suppress women's rights in the past, the origin of the suppression stems not from any religion.

Protecting against women during her period is found in the book of Levitiucs and I see a great wisdom and compassion in that. I guess it's depends on how we look at things.

Oz actually comes from east of those plains, his shoes notwithstanding. Nevertheless, he grew up in the Bible Belt and knows first-hand that what I speak is not without merit.

As another piece of evidence that many of our fundamentalists are not that different from those in the Middle East, consider what the GOP and it's base tried to do to women in this last election -- nothing short of preventing women from controlling their own lives, bodies and reproduction choices. Sure, their intolerance was embedded in western culture which doesn't have the same sharp edges as the east. But the spirit of subjugation was there just the same. The same certainly holds for homosexuals too.

Such are the 'enlightened readers' of Leviticus.