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Bro these racists are so embarrassing (discuss.online)

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 62 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (13 children)

I literally believe an innocent, defenseless, sentient creature was systematicallty and needlessly tortured and murdered to make this and that my tax dollars paid to subsidize it. If this isn't triggering to me, I can't even imagine how fucking stupid this looks to Muslims who think God forbids it. Like should someone fire back a video of themselves disregarding the Sabbath and expect Christians to care?

And isn't pork haram predominantly because it was considered by people like Muhammad to be impure? So this sounds more like someone sending them a video of scraping gum off the underside of a desk and chewing it. You sure owned them.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 68 points 4 days ago (11 children)

It was probably considered impure because pigs have a big parasite issue before industrialization and improper cooking often led to people getting sick or dying.

A lot of religious "rules" can typically be boiled down to trying to keep people alive by making sure they avoid potential dangerous things, increasing their hygiene, or just making life easier and reducing hardships.

It's almost like people in charge realized that it would be easier to get people to do things if it meant going to heaven and avoiding hell instead of jail or something.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

My favorite example of this is the protocols for finding mold in your house.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+14%3A33-53&version=NIV

Sure in isolation it's an odd thing for God to care about, but without a doubt it saved countless lives

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 19 points 4 days ago

Super interesting!

He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”

Being a priest must have been a very different job back in the day.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

What kind of mould was this, I wonder? It sounds gross, and if such efforts went into eradication it must have been super toxic.

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