(September 4, 2013 at 4:20 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I don't understand the ban on eating pork that's found in the Old Testament and in the Qu'ran also. If there has ever been a rock solid argument against this Allah/Yaweh character it's his hatred of Bacon (and Lobster!) Does God not know how fucking delicious it is? Forget the problem of evil, the real problem is the problem of bacon. Does a God who knows everything not know how delicious bacon cheeseburgers were going to be? Seems pretty far fetched to me.
I've heard of several theories:
1. Papua New Guinean natives who extensively practiced cannibalism indicated taste and texture of human flesh is very similar to that of pork. So close is the resemblence that victims of cannibalism are called "long pigs" to indicate what is to be expected from them for the purpose of eating. It has been suggested that early prohibition against eating of pork may have been born as a side prohibition to the main prohibition against cannibalism.
2. Although pigs are quite clean when in the wild, pigs in many domesticated environments exist in filthy, disease breeding conditions. A prohibition against eating of pork may have been born of the observation that those societies which do not keep domesticated pigs for meat tend to suffer fewer diseases.



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