Is that why you're a moderator, timber?
I think Frank is right that one either accepts the entire Bible as "the word of God," or as what wandering scribes put down as their belief of God's word. It's not the lay person who is being a hypocrite in wanting to believe the moral instruction of the Bible, and excepting as an instance the absurdities of Leviticus, but the theological teachers who want to launder the Bible in order to satisfy their following who are drifting away from the Church. Is the Church trying to repair their image of an entity of no tolerance? The child picketing the gay school is certainly an example of the religious lunacy in our society. That women should be shackled at home (the Southern Babtists, at least of the Jerry Falwell type) is another.
Of course, consider that his faith is telling him to stay fat and die of a heart attack. I understand he needs his chaffeur to get him in and out of his limo.
