RE: Controlled by fables from thousands of years ago!
January 17, 2017 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2017 at 11:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's a common way to imagine it, but that;s just us retconning them. Their idea of uncleanliness was not ours. The things they derided -as- unclean were spiritually unclean. It;s also a bit of a stretch to imagine that there was any point in human history that we didn't know it was a bad idea to eat spoiled meat. The lengths we went to to cure our kills going back as far as we have evidence thereof suggests that when it comes to food...we didn't have the luxury of being that clueless.
In context, "good pork" is just as dirty as "bad pork". The prohibition on pork does not specify a type or state of pork. They would have seen plenty of people eating pork, when they came up with this prohibition - and not dying..and at the same time, plenty of people eating their preferred meat source and dying. The modern urge to make such prohibitions food safety issues is nothing more or less than trying to sneak in credibility where there is and has never been any. All part and parcel of us imagining (or wishing) that there was more to this, that it wasn't always as absurd as it sounds today. That our deeply held beliefs and longstanding traditions aren't built on the flimsiest of foundations.
It was, they are.
In the larger scope of things, much of the OT is an attempt to codify and normalize the values of the instigating group as "-the- values" and very often they do so by making taboo or distasteful the values or actions of the other. It starts in genesis and it's never anything less than obvious. All that shepherd/sheep imagery.....and the constant refrain of how sinful the cities were, just tells us that a bunch of rurals thought everything to do with city life was icky. One of those things, was dense meat production - the raising of pigs...as opposed to grazing animals. God favored the shepherds and their flocks, and by transitive property the urbanites and their pigs were dirty.
In context, "good pork" is just as dirty as "bad pork". The prohibition on pork does not specify a type or state of pork. They would have seen plenty of people eating pork, when they came up with this prohibition - and not dying..and at the same time, plenty of people eating their preferred meat source and dying. The modern urge to make such prohibitions food safety issues is nothing more or less than trying to sneak in credibility where there is and has never been any. All part and parcel of us imagining (or wishing) that there was more to this, that it wasn't always as absurd as it sounds today. That our deeply held beliefs and longstanding traditions aren't built on the flimsiest of foundations.
It was, they are.
In the larger scope of things, much of the OT is an attempt to codify and normalize the values of the instigating group as "-the- values" and very often they do so by making taboo or distasteful the values or actions of the other. It starts in genesis and it's never anything less than obvious. All that shepherd/sheep imagery.....and the constant refrain of how sinful the cities were, just tells us that a bunch of rurals thought everything to do with city life was icky. One of those things, was dense meat production - the raising of pigs...as opposed to grazing animals. God favored the shepherds and their flocks, and by transitive property the urbanites and their pigs were dirty.
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