>Yeah, that's my issue too. You can't do it all, or ignore it all, so you have to have someone tell you what you should follow. If Howard had been brought up in a different environment, or even in the same theology, but a different geological location, he would be spouting something different. It's all so subjective that they need to be told how to act "right." I don't get it.
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>>So if he turned to chapter & verse that said you should thrash the wife soundly once a week (and there probably is) you be OK with that?

Imagine if he'd been brought up a Thugge:

"I tell my children that they should strangle to death at least one infidel a month ..."