Religious books, are they perfect?

You have a very healthy attitude. Blind belief in every word, often taken out of context, can be dangerous. But you don't want to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' as the saying goes!! There is a lot of good things there as well.

Are you a Jew then? If you are Christian I don't think you will find this instruction in the Gospels. Jesus speaks with the authority of God and therefore his teachings of love and compassion take precedence over previous or later teachings. all the best urban

it depends upon how you take.. its just for your guidance its not always that you must follow that way only..

As one other pointed out you do have to keep in mind the times the books were written. Not only written but for years how they were translated and copied by men in very different times as our own. The books are supposed to be inspired by God but man is still the one who wrote them, translated them, copied them, etc. Errors can happen, bias can creep in and we are left wondering what to make of it all. There are many things from the bible I do not agree with. The treatment of women and wives, the ownership of slavery, to name two things. The new Testament was written by men under Roman law. They wrote with that fact in mind, I've even had priests state this. Therefore we must take that into consideration when reading such works. Not everything is applicable in this day and age that was written so long ago.

you have to bear in mind that all of the major religious texts were written in a world that is totally different to our own. The ideals and thoughts of 1000 years ago and in the case of some of the books 2000-3000 years ago are very different. You have to read these texts with that in mind. the books themselves are not the word of god, but the word of god as interperated by man and that has to be remembered.

no man shold hit a woman im a religious woman i belive in god but not christian i disagree to.

Unlike in christiany, in Hinduism, there is no need to read chapter after chapter at temple. The books written by highly educated vedic scholars have real stuff. Like education in a specific field, these books educate us to be humane, kind, generous, helpful, honest. If it is practised in toto, world would be wonderful place to live in. I tried to follow as much as possible.

All scriptures are mediated by human-beings. That is, regardless of whether or not you consider their ultimate source to be God, they are read by human-beings. All of us interpret what we read through a mix of our own experiences, our cultural beliefs and the expectations of our parents and culture. Once I disagree with in the Bible has to do with society's treatment of homosexuals.