(True! I wonder if that would have been flagged for the author of the article if the popular pseudo-argument had been "God hates pork.")
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.
I am not entirely surprised to hear that. I was surprised to read it was a Christian tactic; it reminded me of Richard Dawkins on his eternal quest to prove that all religion is a bunch of inconsistent gibberish. Disprove one part of it, the whole thing falls apart, right?
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).
Which I did not know, because I have very patchy knowledge of the history of early Christianity and the ways in which it differentiated itself from Judaism, and is one of the reasons I wanted a Christian perspective. Thank you!
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.
GOOD GOD DO NOT BE LATE TO THE SEVEN-HOUR MEETING OF DOOOOOOM I AM SO SORRY.
I hope you get some rest soon.
Thank you. I hope the meeting is not as interminable as it could be!
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(True! I wonder if that would have been flagged for the author of the article if the popular pseudo-argument had been "God hates pork.")
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.
I am not entirely surprised to hear that. I was surprised to read it was a Christian tactic; it reminded me of Richard Dawkins on his eternal quest to prove that all religion is a bunch of inconsistent gibberish. Disprove one part of it, the whole thing falls apart, right?
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).
Which I did not know, because I have very patchy knowledge of the history of early Christianity and the ways in which it differentiated itself from Judaism, and is one of the reasons I wanted a Christian perspective. Thank you!
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.
GOOD GOD DO NOT BE LATE TO THE SEVEN-HOUR MEETING OF DOOOOOOM I AM SO SORRY.
I hope you get some rest soon.
Thank you. I hope the meeting is not as interminable as it could be!
*hugs*