Is it OK for me to take two sisters as my wives, as Jacob did -- and is it also OK for me to conceive children by two of my household servants?
Oh, speaking of slavery, that was OK in the Bible, too. So can we keep humans as chattel?
Are we to stone adulterers? And, in the event of a natural disaster, would you say it is OK for my daughters to get me drunk and seduce me, so they they can conceive children, as Lot's daughters did after the destruction of Sodom?
Beyond such absurdities -- exposing the absurdity of your reasoning -- why do you take a clearly EXCEPTIONAL case and seek to make it the rule? I mean, during a desperate manpower shortage in World War II (an exceptional circumstance), female pilots were used to transport airplanes from factory to airfield. But this exception did not overthrow the rule.
You arg engaged in bad logic, but of a type very common nowadays. I was once in a discussion of homosexuality when someone brought up the question of people born with ambiguous genitalia (hermaphrodites), as if the existence of a few thousand freaks of nature somehow affects how normal men and women should behave. I suppose it must be something in our contemporary culture -- we don't like rules or roles, and thus naturally think up every possible exception whenever someone suggests that, for instance, WAR IS A MAN'S JOB, which it most certainly is.
Darlin', darlin', darlin'...
So, it's obvious that the only ones who can use the Bible are those who agree with you?
I didn't start with this "the Bible sez" argument - this poster did. I just won the logic war, on his turf, and that upsets you?
I'm sorry, but your outrage at my use of the Bible doesn't have credibility until you address the poster of this article. First, go after the poster, and then you may come after me. It's important to be throrough.
Plus, it's important to have a nice day as well. Happy memorial day. I spent mine at the national cemetery, honoring our dead - rather than denegrating the small percentage of them that are women. Their sacrifices humble me; so many of them, women who served in the Second World War. Among them is my Grandmother.
Actually it would be in his undies.