Actually, the left is very selective about the Bible, as long as they can use their selections to discredit the Bible, Christianity, and religion in general.
Your knowledge of the Bible is painfully evident: The marriage of "virgins" is covered in Leviticus, and it relates only to priests...
Um... no. Let's look at the verse, shall we?
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman,
and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate....
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.--
Deuteronomy 22:13-22
Now, I want you to think about this. How many poor girls got stoned to death in bible times for not only losing their virginity, but just for their hymen breaking in other ways, as they often do. Man, this is kind of messed up... but this is the wise and holy book you clowns want us all to live by.
Christianity is centered around the New Testament, as the old Mosaic testament is mainly Jewish law, and is only useful to the Christian because of the many prophesies of the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ.
Which part? Because in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus clearly says the Mosaic laws shall stand for all time! Also, there are very few valid prophecies in the OT that predicted Jesus, just a lot of shoehorning to get Jesus to fit into prophecy.... our boy Matthew being the worst offender, actually making quotes up that weren't in there.
By the time the New testament was written, women were allowed to remarry if they were widows or their husbands divorced them...
Actually, that was allowed in the OT as well. I was talking about the barbaric practice of stoning women to death for not being virgins... while this was probably not still going on by the time of Jesus, (The "Go forth and sin no more" seems more like a thought excercise than an actual stoning.) probably the same thing can be said about homosexuality, which was largely accepted in the Greco-Roman world.