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I want to sell my daughter to be a slave, just like "Bible · Old Testament" 21:7 said, she is a sophomore, speaks Italian, was called to clean the table often, she can sell What's the price? ...My assistant Leo insisted on working on the Sabbath. The Bible, Old Testament 35:2, it is very clear that he should be executed. Did I kill him personally or can I call the police? …There are a lot of sports fans here. When they encounter dead pigskins, it makes them unclean. "Leviticus" 11:7, if they are allowed to wear gloves, can Washington redskins still play football? …The whole city really has to get together and stone my brother John because he planted different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother to death in a small family meeting because she wears clothes made of different threads?
(2)
——The Jewish law does not prohibit the death penalty?
-No prohibition.
——It says tooth for tooth?
——Do you know what else it said? It says that traitors should be taken to the city gate and stoned to death; homosexuality is abominable and should be punished by the death penalty; men can have polygamy; and slavery is feasible. These were the highest wisdom of the time, but by modern standards it was a big mistake.
Here, the most important key word is "at the time." Any kind of theory only represents the analysis and conclusion of the phenomenon of *at the time* by the people of *at that time* on the basis of the predecessors, and it inevitably has the limitations of the times. The vitality of a doctrine lies in the abuse of "advance with the times", which is a process of sublation. If Westerners really acted in accordance with their scriptures, the Bible and Judaism, Christianity and Judaism would have long since perished.
Our ancestors were wise, but both Confucius and Zhuangzi only represented the highest wisdom at that time, and each had its own limitations. The essence and dregs of our Chinese classics coexist. What we need is to get rid of the false and preserve the truth. This is the responsibility of contemporary scholars to revitalize Chinese learning. And the kind of people who use Chinese culture as a signboard to deceive the public for personal gain under the guise of sages are not worthy of being called scholars, or even intellectuals, they are just shrewd businessmen.
The ten doctors are right, and you must be in awe of the classics. But in today's "entertainment to death", everything is used for entertainment to eliminate condemnation, or to be used for consumption. I don't believe that there will be a day when Chinese culture will rejuvenate. We are playing to death by ourselves.
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