In some cases it was said to be that unclean animals resembled the demonic/devilish entities of whatever flavor of faith was infecting that area.
But I have another hypothesis about that, which also has to do with my hypothesis about why there are prohibitions against homosexuality in the bible; some shepherd with a lot of land was expecting a tidy dowry, and then his son ran off with a stable boy instead of going through with the marriage, so he lost out on the chance to expand. So he bitched about it to a friend who happened to be one of the holy order, and wham bam thank you ma'am, buttfucking becomes an abomination. Substitute stable boy for farm animal of your choice, and you get unclean animals. Also very likely one of these assholes trod on a sea urchin and said the same thing about anything in the water that wasn't a fish being an abomination afterward.
But I have another hypothesis about that, which also has to do with my hypothesis about why there are prohibitions against homosexuality in the bible; some shepherd with a lot of land was expecting a tidy dowry, and then his son ran off with a stable boy instead of going through with the marriage, so he lost out on the chance to expand. So he bitched about it to a friend who happened to be one of the holy order, and wham bam thank you ma'am, buttfucking becomes an abomination. Substitute stable boy for farm animal of your choice, and you get unclean animals. Also very likely one of these assholes trod on a sea urchin and said the same thing about anything in the water that wasn't a fish being an abomination afterward.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
