Handshakes are inherently evil now? Is this a joke?
If you had quoted the verse from Proverbs in context, the actual meaning would be apparent:
” 26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?”
So, clearly, the proverb is saying to not to take a debt upon yourself with only your handshake as collateral. For, if you can’t repay it, then the debtor will make you destitute.
It’s disturbing to me that you could even try to make something like a handshake, which is an outward expression, into something evil in and of itself. Our righteousness is based on inward things, not on outward things.
>> “Handshakes are inherently evil now?” <<
Nice try!
The grip that came with a blood oath, ie the one that Beck does, and Palin appears to be doing in the photograph, is the one being refered to in the scriptural verses.
Save you tricks for your foolish ‘brothers.’