The omissions that are the most glaring are not the ones left out from one translation or edition to another, but the ones which are in the text but which are left out if they prove too inconvenient or embarrassing when trying to cobble together a single set of tenents.
There isn't one set that any of the sects share exactly with another.
So much for how clear The Word is.
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is a good price for a daughter? Um.
But here's Spendius with a perfect example of how it is supposed to work:
Quote:I can't be held to account for that.
Before the Good Book came into wide circulation after printing became feasible very few people were literate and the masses were milked in ways it doesn't do to think about too much.
There are many ways to milk the masses and most of us are involved in the activity in one way or another.
Before we object to the masses being milked we should bear that in mind. Just imagine the masses not being milked.
No don't. It's too scary.
That's the answer. Don't think about things that are too difficult to understand. Poofism solves everything so neatly.
But, let's not turn this thread into ANOTHER "my made-up myth is a really really truthy myth" extravaganza. The subject here is Intelligent Design and whether that idea has any substance that children ought to be taught.
Joe(So far, and it's been a long thread, the answer is no.)Nation
