>>I repeat: - God's never written down word one. Whoever wrote that was writing maybe a consensus of pious men who decided they didn't like pufters. Even if you believe that God wrote the 10 commandments, with laser beams from the sky, "Thou shalt not bite pillows" isn't one of them.
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>That is why it is called "Revelation". Everything in the Bible has been "revealed". The writer(s) are always talking about what somebody heard from God or other. Moses and Abraham did not write a word of the books we read today. It is always somebody talking about what somebody else said about what somebody heard what Moses said when he came back.

Can't make out if you're gainsaying me or agreeing :-)

In a court of law we'd hear "Objection! ... Hearsay, Your Honor!" (or, in England, "M'Lud"). Anyway, the quotes I was responding to weren't from Revelations - Leviticus or something. Thing is, anyone can say "The Lord hath spake to me" (unless they've a lisp :-), to get their own way. Good job we don't believe murderers when they use that as justification for their actions. Also, it was very handy for an unmarried woman to claim an "immaculate contraption" to avoid being put to death for pre-marital sex.

Oh, and does it say somewhere anything about "And if a man shall lie down with a woman as he wouldst with a man ..."?

To sum up my slant on this - there are loads of archaic, inappropriate laws about. Why, in England it's illegal go outside the parish boundaries or eat mince pies at Christmas, according to Cromwellian laws that have never been repealed". It's also illegal to beat carpets between certain times on certain days, but they never updated the law to state when you could vacuum!