On 5 Mar 2007 06:56:27 -0800,
Zhadow <geister@mailinator.com> wrote:

Consider the Bible's coverage of another field: health and
sanitation. If an Israelite had a skin blemish suspected of being
leprosy, he was put in isolation. "All the days that the plague is in
him he will be unclean. He is unclean. He should dwell isolated.
Outside the camp is his dwelling place." (Leviticus 13:46) Even
infected garments were burned. (Leviticus 13:52) In those days, this
was an effective way of preventing the spread of the infection.

Another important law had to do with the disposal of human excrement,
which had to be buried outside the camp. (Deuteronomy 23:12, 13) This
law no doubt saved Israel from many sicknesses. Even today, severe
health problems are caused in some lands by the improper disposal of
human wastes. If people in those lands would only follow the law
written down thousands of years ago in the Bible, they would be much
healthier.

The Bible's high standard of hygiene even involved mental health. A
Bible proverb said: "A calm heart is the life of the fleshly organism,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones." (Proverbs 14:30) In recent
years, medical research has demonstrated that our physical health is
indeed affected by our mental attitude. For example, Doctor C. B.
Thomas of Johns Hopkins University studied more than a thousand
graduates over a period of 16 years, matching their psychological
characteristics with their vulnerability to diseases. One thing she
noted: The graduates most vulnerable to disease were those who were
angrier and more anxious under stress.

Yeah, it's really great that the Bible banned sexual intercourse during
menstruation. Too bad that modern science pretty much trounced on the
notion that it's unclean. But we'll just ignore the many ways in which
the Bible is wrong, and whoop up a few ways in which it was right.

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:56:27 -0800, Zhadow wrote:

Consider the Bible's coverage of another field: health and
sanitation. If an Israelite had a skin blemish suspected of being
leprosy, he was put in isolation.

God didn't bother to give them a cure. For that matter, he didn't even
tell them about penicillan and that grows in freakin' mold...

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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace
alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
- H. L. Mencken

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