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Well I certainly feel triumphant. [indent[And nothing makes me giggle quite so much as seeing religiostupidity protesting athiofascism. :)

'Scripture' is a label and a lens that we apply to a text after the fact.

I wish I had my grandfather's Torah. Treat it with care (as I'm sure you do). I would still highly recommend picking up the Plaut Torah and Commentary mentioned above. I have accumulated a number of Torahs and Tanachs, and Plaut is typically my 2nd go-to resource - the 1st being the 5 volume...

If you say so ...

Thank you, Jane. I will consider the book. But, from the quote immediately above, this text, however interesting, was obviously not the source of your previous claim. So, again, could/would you cite two or three example supporting your claim concerning "the 'covenant' which all Big Gods (across...

This is certainly not my understanding from what I've read. See, for example, Frank Moore Cross and Mark S. Smith. Could you perhaps cite two or three examples?

May I ask which one?

Just a quick post to wish the Muslims here a sincere Ramadan Mubarak. Shalom/Salaam ...

So is willful ignorance. And, I'm not at all angry.

You came here to learn? Seriously? Marcialou, do you own a Torah? Rather than dismiss your sages as "small children", why don't you make an adult effort to understand what you so readily demean? For what it's worth, I'd recommend Plaut. Finally, since you appear to be so enamored by your...

Have you ever actually taken the time to study Torah commentary? Or do you simply prefer to demean it with shallow opinion?

Perfect … :)

Let's try this again: On what grounds do you claim that marriage is a religious institution? You really have only two options here - you will either defend your claim or end up looking like a fool as you try to avoid that responsibility. Perhaps you'll opt for the former.

Absolute rubbish.

Similarly, your bombastic claims about marriages "changes not on[e] whit what they are nor does your empty blather". All we get from you is undefended assertion. Now, yet again, on what grounds do you claim that marriage is a religious institution?

Yet a guy with but 10 posts managed to figure it out. And being a bigot means treating a class of people with derisive contempt. I seriously doubt it.

How interesting that you would direct that particularly disgusting hyperbole to a Jew … :rolleyes:

Now that was a brilliant statement! Of course, you have yet to demonstrate how and why being a civil contract makes it any less a marriage. It's interesting how you assiduously avoid going beyond proclamations of dogma. :)

That is a statement of narrow minded dogma, not fact. Let me fix it for you … There … much, much better. Thanks for sharing.

Was that intended as a coherent sentence? You make a pretentious claim and, as soon as it's challenged, wax incoherent and try desperately to shift the burden of proof. It's all rather unsightly.