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Easy enough. Some would argue that it's simply part of the purity law, and so doesn't apply to Christians any more than keeping kosher does. (The kosher laws were explicitly abrogated by the NT.) Others would argue that the sentence prescribed by the law was to be handed down by the Jewish civil state, and since we don't live in ancient Israel, we don't have to follow the prescribed punishments for those acts. And there are probably other explanations one could give.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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