Re: The wearing o' the orange

"David Friedman" <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> 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having been superseded by The New Covenant.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.

So Jews are still supposed to kill people who work on the Sabbath?

Karl Johanson