Passages...Verses like that appear in RW bibles?

That there is a bible,apart from the one I have a modest familiararity with....One that either ignores the teaching of Jesus or preaches the opposite...One that contains verses that support certain folks narrow minded opinions and don't address legitimate concerns,such as:

When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1: 9). The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. How should I deal with this?.......Or:

I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?

Maybe I would have been more accurate,had I made reference to an uhmerkin bible,rather than a RW one....Sorry...

sounds like god gave us cows, but why oh why say no to piggies? mmmm bacon.

Is that you,Anthony Bourdain?....

Besides reasoning with fundies is pointless.

They base their life around faith, not reason.

Long ago they made peace with the fact that only portions of their holy books are the literal word of God to be directly applied to real life, whereas the inconvenient bits are metaphors God wrote after having too many tequila shots and getting all weird.

Because those verses do not really say that, and they certainly do not exactly say that. 8 verses have been paraphrased, very loosely into two sentences.

Swing, and a miss.

Deuteronomy 22
Marriage Violations
13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

Like this doofus who got a tattoo with Leviticus 18:12 put on his arm:



But, had he read a little further down to Leviticus 19:28, he would have seen:

'You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD'

OOPS!

"Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly."