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From: jsol@bbncca.ARPA (Jon Solomon )
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Subject: religious obsolescence
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Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 13:20:26 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  5 13:20:26 1983
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My last article was more flammatory than informative, so I will make
up for it here. We have (at least) two theories about why homosexuals
exist. The first is genetic and the second is environmental.

It is my belief that we (humans) all have homosexual feelings of one
sort or another (that's what I believe is the genetic part.) What we 
do with those feelings is a matter of personal preference, moral
outlook, background, religion, etc (thats what I believe is the
environmental part). Hence, I believe that both factors play a role
in the developent of a person, homosexual or not.

Don't knock the bible, it was a very useful tool back in the old days
before we really had a perspective on the world, environment, etc.
However, don't take the bible literally, because (at least the Old
Testmanent) is horrible out of date.

I was brought up Jewish, our religion taught that it was more
important to interpret the bible in today's terms than to read into
it literally. Some parts of it are obsolete, for example, the reason
Jewish people kept kosher was the cooking and eating utensils were
made out of wood. Milk and meat have their parasite germs which when
mixed together and ingested in the stomach cause sickness. Separating
milk and meat was an effective way to prevent the sickness, so the
laws of the kashrut (keeping kosher) were founded. They were means of
survival. Now that we have metal, ceramic, and china for utensils, we
don't need to keep kosher. We still do, as a matter of tradition, but
we DONT NEED TO and that's what I consider important.

Rambling on...

--Jon