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To: savagesusie

Your points are well taken, and I would add that the revelation at Sinai also included a kind of sexual revolution: in contrast to all the cultures of antiquity, with their pederasty and sacred prostitutes and lecherous gods, the ancient Hebrews were instructed to restrict sexual activity to marriage with the purpose of procreation. It is under-appreciated how radically different the Torah was to the ambient cultures. Orthodox Jews are permitted some forms of contraception but only in the context of a family oriented towards children (and we still have a high fertility rate.


69 posted on 03/12/2012 11:50:33 AM PDT by Spengler (It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of you.)
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To: Spengler

Yes. The Jewish traditions and culture was the root of Christian culture, and, the Laws of Moses—the most perfect set of laws for creating a relationship with both God and human beings—was enshrined and accepted throughout Western civilization and became the norm and the base of the US Constitution and our legal system. Morality was entrenched in American Law until the Progressives removed morality from law, which destroyed “Just Laws”.

Worldview and culture create societies that either flourish or die—and none is longer lasting than the Orthodox Jewish culture because of the most profound book of Wisdom of all time, which consists of such great insight and understanding of human nature.


73 posted on 03/12/2012 12:35:18 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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