Can I get someone with a liberal Christian perspective on this issue?
I have thirteen minutes before I have to reappear in the seven hour meeting of doooooom, so this will be brief:
I mostly agree with the article, both for the stated reasons (argument by shrimp presupposes a "we" that is protestant and implicitly white, it is disrespectful of Jews (and Muslims!) who keep dietary and other purity laws) and for the additional reason that people who use the argument by shrimp are often smugly self-righteous and don't actually have a good hermeneutic position of their own. Probe them about any of the other "clobber" verses and they completely fall apart, much like the proponents of said clobber verses, actually. ALSO, Christians, specifically, as opposed to atheists or secular humanists, who present that argument completely fail to understand why we believe we are exempt from Jewish dietary laws (it was basically a sop to Gentiles who were struggling to conform to Jewish culture and went hand in hand with that whole "no you don't have circumcise your adult men" thing). There's a lot more I could say about American Christendom and the Law but that would take more than the seven minutes I have left, and would probably be a tangent.
There had better be a bed and some sleep soon. I am tired of making lists.
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I have thirteen minutes before I have to reappear in the seven hour meeting of doooooom, so this will be brief:
I mostly agree with the article, both for the stated reasons (argument by shrimp presupposes a "we" that is protestant and implicitly white, it is disrespectful of Jews (and Muslims!) who keep dietary and other purity laws) and for the additional reason that people who use the argument by shrimp are often smugly self-righteous and don't actually have a good hermeneutic position of their own. Probe them about any of the other "clobber" verses and they completely fall apart, much like the proponents of said clobber verses, actually. ALSO, Christians, specifically, as opposed to atheists or secular humanists, who present that argument completely fail to understand why we believe we are exempt from Jewish dietary laws (it was basically a sop to Gentiles who were struggling to conform to Jewish culture and went hand in hand with that whole "no you don't have circumcise your adult men" thing). There's a lot more I could say about American Christendom and the Law but that would take more than the seven minutes I have left, and would probably be a tangent.
There had better be a bed and some sleep soon. I am tired of making lists.
*hugs* I hope you get some rest soon.