Re: The wearing o' the orange

In article <IRvFj.109453$pM4.97748@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Karl Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "Harry Mary Andruschak" <adoptsoldcats@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> 
> >On Mar 22, 9:42pm, Tom Hardy <rha...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Harry Mary Andruschak wrote:
> >> > ... The penitent should strive to have only the least expensive and
> >> > minimum amount of clothing needed for comfort, employment, and 
> >> > utility....
> >>
> >> How about linsey-woolsey for durability? Huh, Wikipedia says that the

> >> bible
> >> specifically bans the stuff.
> >
> >Sigh.....The Mosaic Law specifically bans it. For Catholics, the
> >Mosaic Laws no longer apply,
> 
> For Catholics the Mosaic laws they find inconvenient no longer apply. 
> Homophobic Catholics still reserve the right to refer to Mosaic law when

> they're in a mood to judge homo***uals as sinners.
> 
> >having been superseded by The New Covenant.
> 
> Genesis 17:19
> And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou 
> shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for

> an *everlasting covenant* (emphasis added), and with his seed after him.

....

> Either mosaic law is still in effect, or God lied, and/or the Bible is 
> self contradictory and wrong, and/or god is fictitious.

Or the covenant is with Israel, not all of mankind, and so only applies 
to Jews--the "seed of Isaac," presumably defined in some fa****on that 
doesn't include everyone whose ancestry includes Isaac in some line, 
which would be almost everyone.

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