I would love to see the Bible’s analysis concluding that going to the bathroom is a sin.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Deuteronomy 23:12-14
12 Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself.
13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
Only thing that's relevant, and it only a sin if you don't cover it after.
Holy shit!
Does flushing it down the toilet qualify? It seems to me that it qualifies. When flushed, excrement is moved to a location (a sewage line or septic tank) that is outside the “camp” (your home), already dug, and already covered, thereby preventing the “camp” from becoming “indecent” (unsanitary). That's the whole reason why sewage systems were invented: it's more convenient and can handle far more excrement than simply burying it in a hole in the backyard.
Huh, doesn't that mean that toilets which flush are valid then? It may not be covering it, but it's the same logical conclusion.
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It's from Mark 7:18-20
18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?”[a] (Thus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him.
Is this based on something real?
The bible ... or the cartoon? either way, the answer is the same anyway ... they're both made up.
At least the cartoon has predicted things that came true.
I always figured he was referring to the verse that says to dig a hole, poop in that, and then cover it up.
I don't remember the area but there is a line in the Bible that says I will cutteth off the member of him that pisseth against the wall.
I mean, so, you can go to the bathroom but God's going to take your penis if you do.
One of the best lines of the Simpsons