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>>Beating and killing your own child for disobedience is also a feature in the Bible and the modern Middle East. Again, something that the Western world came to view as "not good."<<

He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. -- Exodus 21:

Put them to death: the verb is used metaphorically to signify, to deprive a thing of its power, to destroy its strength.

10 Commandments: Exodus 20:13 Thou Shall Not Kill

So you're wrong again. Tell you what... if you get the universe thing figured out before Christmas, PM me and we'll tell the world together.

No, my dear, it's not a metaphor. You want it to be, so you say it is, and you think that because you said it, well, then it must be. But it's not. When Abraham was willing to kill Isaac, no law was being broken. Children, wives, and slaves were property of the head of the household. That is Middle Eastern culture to this very day.

Americans just go through scriptures and say "Oh, God didn't really mean this. And he didn't really mean that. And he changed his mind about this." Until the Bible says whatever you want it to say.

Gays do the same thing. They can explain away anything about homosexuality. You quote them something, they pick a different quote that "nullifies" it. All you religious folks are the same, from the muslims on down. You simply decide that God wants what you like. You do as you please, and you just know that God approves.