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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is it about this animal that makes it to the forbidden fruit list?
What was the reasoning back in the day?[/quote]People even now get sick every year eating shellfish and undercooked pork. People have died.

Back in biblical times, there were no microwaves to nuke the parasites and harmful bacteria in creatures which eat filth, feces, or feast on the dead. These animals God declared unclean to eat.

Similarly, God said not to wear mixed fabrics. Back in those days, there were no powerful detergents, no hot water rinse or steam cycles to destroy fleas and lice which hide and lay eggs in the gap between the two fabrics.

Note that there was no death sentence for eating unclean foods or wearing mixed fabrics but there was a death sentence for rape of a betrothed woman, homosexuality, and adultery. 
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And slavery!  That was endorsed also!  Don’t forget slavery![/quote]

I hear you. But ancient slavery was very different than industrial chattel slavery like in the American South[/quote]

Different how?

Both involved owning people.

Your position is the one used by people trying to justify it.  Here’s a suggestion: don’t do that!  It is never OK to own another person, under any circumstances, and never has been.  It’s immoral.  Can’t we agree on that?[/quote]

If you refuse to understand the outsize scale and cruelty of chattel slavery in early modern to modern day, I cannot help you. [/quote]

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