Slickskin

Deuteronomy 25:4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

If this verse is important enough to put in the most important book ever written, and it was to guide us through modern day (perhaps it was not?), shouldn't there be modern day equivalence? Should these not be provided to us somehow?

Thou shalt break with the right foot and not the left
Thou shalt only put regular coffee in a pot with a black handle
Thou shalt wash thine hands for the same ammount of time it takes to sing the happy birthday song twice.

When making the assertion that religion is used to control people, the fact that they (the authors) included so many capitolist and social principles that would normally be mandated by the state, the assertion is validated in the fact that they are not more timeless.

For example, "two days earnings" would be more appropriate than "currency of the time".

andrewcriddle

This is an injunction against cruel treatment of animals. (It was deemed cruel for the ox to have to spend all day helping process food while being denied any taste of it)

Avoiding unnecessary cruelty to animals is relevant today as well as in the time of the Bible.

Andrew Criddle

Slickskin

I understand the implication of the law as well as the bar of cruelty, my point was that the book appears to have been written in an era and the laws were written as such.

Understanding thet the writers would have no idea that the average person would drive a car, they would not know to write the book as such, but if god is timeless and all knowing then it would have been likely for him to write "use your turn signals" or go even further into the future and say "don't pull quiggles on a snarfling".

The book was not written with the intent of being used in it's entirety today, it would seem.

And really... the pardon of an animal working all day, yet stoning (with stones) is permitable to a woman who is solely claimed to be impure?