Do any religions have bad teachings in their holy book(s) and/or history?

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115. I didn't even "drop in"

I read DU through the "Latest Threads" page.

On another note, I was tickled when you posted a photo of your wife's birthday present to you, an old "ladies guide" type of book. I used to collect those until I ran out of room, then sold the lot on Ebay. Lots of regrets, of course.

But one of the joys of my life is my grandmother's 1896 Guide to Etiquette and Letter Writing, so well-read that the covers are black (from little girls' dirty hands, I suspect), complete with ads for Uncle Josh's crackerjack jokebook and "coon songs" on the inside covers. What makes it particularly dear to me is that my grandmother grew up in the mountains outside Hinton WV, living with cousins until her widowed father remarried, then taken out of school in second grade to work in her stepmother's Railroad Hotel. She was a voracious reader, and I like to think of her hiding somewhere, avoiding washing sheets or setting the table, curled up with this book, learning which corner of her calling card to turn down to indicate "pour prendre conge."