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AIBU?

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To think the old ways knew what they were about

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Bestseller · 02/12/2018 11:52

Particularly some bible teachings? Now I know the bible is used as an excuse for some very biggotted behaviour so obviously I'm being selective but things like "unclean" foods are there things thatvwoukd likely have made you I'll in a world without good hygiene and refrigeration.

An old memory came to me today while I'm run ing around like a mad person, trying to get a week's worth of chores done. My Grandma was an avid follower of the day of rest. I remember her horror at seeing the vicar cutting his grass on a Sunday.

AIBU to think that a society that imposed one day of rest a week actually knew what it was doing?

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itsboiledeggsagain · 02/12/2018 11:55

Lots are very dismissive of the bible (and those who aren't are probably in church!) but I agree.

My father has had two marriages and it has caused all sorts of problems for him as he has get older and it has made me think about how the bible suggests it is not a good idea - it is probably right. And I have a few more examples too along similar lines

RayRayBidet · 02/12/2018 12:02

The bible does contradict itself quite a bit.

Birdsgottafly · 02/12/2018 12:05

The 'day of rest' in my experience usually involved getting the kids ready for Church, cooking dinner and making sure the school uniform was done.

In times when that was the tasks day to day, the only difference was that you wasn't supposed to do any washing.

Enforced rest isn't a good thing.

If you can it's a good time to do things that you usually wouldn't, or visit relatives. But again, the hosting would be put upon the Woman.

itsboiledeggsagain so you stay in a bad marriage, or forever single and that's it?

OutragedERIC · 02/12/2018 12:08

My grandparents were religious and avid churchgoers. The day of rest thing didn’t extend to my grandma!

Liverbird77 · 02/12/2018 13:14

I have a Theology degree and teach R.E.
I think the Bible contains some bizarre teachings and some downright horrific stories. I will do anything to make sure my own child doesn't go to a faith school.
I think we can act decently without the fear of God to motivate us.

Iruka · 02/12/2018 13:20

Day of rest didn't apply to the women though did it? They would still be expected to care for the children and cook all the meals. In my experience people who hark back to the good old days rarely remember the bad bits.
Like earlier this year there was a facebook meme saying something like what was so wrong about the 50s, good old fashioned family values. I pointed out that we were better off without the wide spread institutional racism and legal spousal rape.

RayRayBidet · 02/12/2018 13:24

The day of rest is bloody annoying if you ask me. I live in a catholic part of Germany and everything is closed on Sundays. It's not nice when it's enforced. I find Sunday really boring and did as a child in the UK when Sundays were like that.

JustHereForThePooStories · 02/12/2018 13:40

Absolutely, OP.

I hope nobody who has given birth to a baby girl in the past 66 days comes along and defiles our thread.

"But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days." (Leviticus 12:5)

RayRayBidet · 02/12/2018 14:58

That's me out then. I haven't been churched. My husband makes me live in the shed.

MeredithGrey1 · 02/12/2018 15:15

But a day of rest doesn’t reduce the amount of work that needs doing, just reduces the number of days when you can do it. Having a Sunday where I don’t do much is lovely, but not if I’ve had to have a crammed Saturday to get it all done. I’d rather spread it out.

CleanBee · 02/12/2018 15:18

My grandparents were religious and avid churchgoers. The day of rest thing didn’t extend to my grandma!

I was just thinking the same thing about my beloved grandparents. They’d come back from church to the smell of the roast that gran had put on that morning.

Pebblespony · 02/12/2018 15:25

Our horses don't feed themselves on a Sunday. Maybe I should tell then it's my day of rest.

6triesbuttingout · 02/12/2018 15:25

Yes, grans didn’t seem to have a day of rest. Me and my bro used to get sent to Sunday school then arrive at nan and grandads where my parents and grandad has been eating cake and coffee ( guess who got that) just in time for Sunday lunch. Nan also did washing up all by herself. Wish I had known enough to help

TinselBeakerSoChristmas · 02/12/2018 15:27

I think the bit about not eating certain animals or seafood makes sense.
Prawns are the scavengers of the sea, they'll eat anything even raw sewage.
And I can imagine back in the days before fridges etc as a pp mentioned they'd spoil in no time.

Beware of graven images, well I suppose that relates to todays photos & I'd apply that to selfies/pics on social media which can are usually airbrushed/photoshopped. There is a big self made onus to look perfect all the time & to show you are living the most glamorous/perfect life. Social media can be very mentally damaging.

There is something about not wearing man made or mixed fibres in the Old Testament. Well look how sweaty polyester clothes or unbreathable fabrics make you feel.

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