VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1358170575|CONTENT|I have a feeling that a lot of the stories in the babble are in there to act as cautionary tales, or examples of less than ideal behaviour. The danger occurs when people read these stories and treat them as instructionary models. I have a feeling that this is what Billings might have been trying to say in his piece this morning. &quot;Hey, you may think that what happened in Delhi was a little unsightly, but that&#039;s nothing to what people used to get up to in ancient Canaan, so all you bible readers have no room to point pious fingers when your holy book shows up your very owbn spiritual ancestors behaving a lot worse than that.&quot;

If he&#039;d wanted to make the message contemporary, then he would have mentioned the incident in which a 16-y-o girl was doped up with Rohypnol and dragged from party to party by a football team to be used as a plaything a few weeks ago. That didn&#039;t happen in the benighted primitive East, it happened in one of the most technologically (and judging by their general tone of self-righteousness) spiritually and socially advanced nation in the world - and the judge practically let the perpetrators off with a &quot;boys will be boys and it was the stupid girl&#039;s fault&quot; verdict.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|