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To: editor-surveyor; mas cerveza por favor; metmom; Jaded; Judith Anne; Legatus; maryz; NYer; ...
Not one word of that passage mentions virginity.

Right, because young girls were taking so many other vows several thousand years ago.

9,536 posted on 10/08/2010 11:33:31 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Show us a reference of Hebrew girls taking a vow of virginity.

Assuming such happened is counter-intuitive. It defies human nature.

A vow of virginity was a pagan act of a woman bonding herself to an idol, and none of them ever remained virgin; they were temple prostitutes.


9,540 posted on 10/08/2010 11:38:27 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: wagglebee; Dr. Eckleburg; editor-surveyor

you seem to be preoccupied with young girls making vows of virginity. Well it wasn’t done in Jewish culture, one reason was that each wanted to give birth to the Messiah. Also culturally, women could not usually survive without a husband or father. And as Jews put a high value on men having children, a widow often married her husband’s brother.


9,541 posted on 10/08/2010 11:39:03 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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