Equally prescient from the standpoint of modern disease control, Mosaic Law has numerous injunctions specifically related to sex. Parents were admonished not to allow their daughters to become prostitutes, and premarital sex, adultery, male homosexuality, and bestiality were all discouraged, if not banned outright. Religion is an ideal enforcer of good public health, for many of the behaviors most relevant to disease propagation occur behind closed doors, outside of public view. There’s simply no way of getting around an omnipresent, all-seeing God ever on the lookout for those who defy His
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