01-02-2015, 10:47 AM
(01-01-2015, 10:06 PM)LPC Wrote: To take a Christian example, although there are lots of examples in other religions (including Islam), the Pharisees strongly criticised Jesus for healing people on the sabbath day, when they said no work of any kind - even healing! - should be done. His view, however, was that doing good was far more important than blindly following ritualistic rules.
I know, LPC, that's why I quite like Him. He didn't mess about.
But even in the Bible, dogs get a bad deal generally....they are outside the City Walls, along with murderers, whores....etc (forgotten the exact quotation) I think those must have been the scavenging 'street dogs' of the time, who survived on waste thrown into garbage pits and worse....in the valley of Gehenna....(the general trash-place where unspeakable things were dumped.)
poor sods.
