If we think about sin, we'll essentially see that the things defined as sin are things that harm others or somehow tear down the community.
The ten commandments in fact are a litany of do-unto-othersisms:
1. Don't kill who? Others
2. Honor who? Others (your father and mother)
3. Don't steal from who? Others
etc. etc. etc.
It's as though God felt we needed reminded that we are a social organism, and humanity as a whole (or the tribe or the other form that community might take) MUST be more important than ME.
So, if we challenge our selves to look into the aspects of the ancient Jewish religion which modern sensibilities find most disturbing:
Women - why are they commanded to be subservient to men?
Homosexuality - why would it be sin?
Destroying other cultures and ways of life because they hold fundamentally different values? (worship other gods etc)
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