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Language drift WAS: Re: Vlad and Kiera- Warning:discussion of religion/OT

Philip Hart philiph
Wed Aug 17 14:40:34 PDT 2005


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Howard Brazee wrote:

> John Klein wrote:
>
> >My favorite is the part where people have translated a term used to
> >describe long hair on men in other parts of the Bible as "against nature"
> >in this passage.
> >
> >
> That is much of religion in a nutshell, sadly.

Well, or much of translation, or much of interpreting translated idioms,
or much of approaching ancient texts that say things that horrify (some
of) us today.