If mercury didn't do it, then the Laws of Leviticus would certainly give someone OCD. I don't know how you can live by them, Russ. For example, when you go to the dentist, to the cinema, or anywhere that requires you to sit on a chair, you'd need to check that no woman previously sitting on it was on her period, or you'd be unclean and need to wash your clothes, bathe in water, and consider yourself unclean. And then every month women must sacrifice two doves. And so forth.

This is supposedly the word of all powerful reasonable God, which, according to you still applies now. Yet, how many Chrstians are even vegetarians, when Genesis says clearly God's vision was for people to be vegans?

I've become a Deist-Pagan. The hypocrisy and contradictions in Christianity finally got too much. Some Pagans believe God reveals him/herself to us on a personal level, and we can experience the divine through nature, which we are to love and respect, cherishing all life-forms, and harming no one.

This has not been an easy decision for me, I have been a Christian all my adult life. But there is no solid evidence even that Jesus existed, and the Bible is not consistent regarding his identity. But this in no way changes my morality or my perceptions of the need to be moral, and to speak out against injustices and cruelties. I do like the morality of Christianity, and I live by it, but there is a lot I just can't believe anymore.