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Reply to Levite
RE: god and incest. Re-read the history of Abraham and Isaac - it sort of spoils the thought that god doesn't like incest. (Abraham married his half sister and Isaac his first cousin) The patriarch of the 'chosen people'. And, god doesn't seem to have done anything to punish Lot and/or his daughters for their couple of nights together, except to make their offspring and their descendants scapegoats (as far as the Hebrews were concerned)
Second - from what I've read about recent studies of mitocondrial DNA, the 6.5 + billion of us are descended from possibly as many as twenty individuals dating about 250 thousand years ago. Seems to me that, if we aren't to be totally hypocritical, we (as a race) have a hell of a lot to thank Incest for. (Please excuse the dangling participle!)
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