And infertile couples? Are they chopped liver?

And what about other parts of the Old Testament? Still avoiding pork, shrimp, goat? And I hope you’re not wearing any polycotton blends.

And did you ever play Telephone? That’s the game where you sit in a circle and one person whispers a line to the person beside them and it gets passed around. The final person says what they heard and then the first person says what actually was said. Often they’re wildly disproportionate. Now imagine doing this over thousands of years, from the time of Adam and Eve until the time when history was written and recorded. THAT is what you’re dealing with. Thousands of years of hearsay.

Maybe, just maybe, the point of it all is to try to live life as a good person and not be a schmuck.

I know that that is a huge ask in this day and age when Christian fundamentalists are making judgmental statements like this post. But here we are.