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comment by bioemerl

I'm the sort of person that takes things as they are.

If a book says "people shouldn't work on sunday" I'm not going to attempt to explain it away and say all the reasons that it's old, and doesn't apply, and shouldn't matter. If I say I follow that book, I'm not going to fucking work on sunday.

The bible has passages in it that, from my view, seem to very strictly state that "this book should not be changed". I fail to see the difference between going in and changing the words vs explaining them away with some BS interpretation that goes through leaps in bounds just to ignore things that clearly do not fit into modern society.

I can definitely see how people can put their own values, find different things as less or more important, but that doesn't change the fact that the bible, the quaran, and most all of the other holy books very clearly have passages and statements that are bullshit, immoral, and honestly have no place in any hotel room drawers. No amount of interpretation will or can ever change that.