Neville, just FTR, I considered your point but don’t agree with it. I appreciated your concern. But the thread would’ve been historical already if not for the tangential OT sub-discussion. Only because of that has this thread remained active. You or anyone are still always able to bring it back on topic, should anyone so care; indeed, the fact that the thread is still active makes that more likely to occur than if it had already been buried and remained deep down and unseen.
CS & laskern, you’re entirely incorrect. I have the Torah, Chazal and literally all the poskim on my side (as demonstrated and cited) whereas you only have your boich svaras on why things are or should be different and changed today than all of Jewish history from Avrohom Avinu until relatively very recently.