RE: Should Muhammad have known alcohol is amazing at killing germs?
June 10, 2015 at 9:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2015 at 9:56 am by Regina.)
(June 6, 2015 at 2:53 pm)Bigmo Wrote:(June 6, 2015 at 2:47 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: OK, that's cool. Now - what about moderate use of bacon?
Unlike alcohol the Quran does not state any reason for pork. There are many theories but eating pork is a smaller deal (at least to me) than alcohol. Alcohol as we know can make you intoxicated . I don't think most Quranist care about pork.
I thought it had something to do with pigs being seen as unclean, it might not be in the Quran, remember a lot of Islamic teachings also come from the Hadith too (although not sure if it's in those, but might be).
As for alcohol, I'm sure it's more healthy to drink a moderate amount of alcohol (not binge drinking obviously) than not drinking alcohol at all. It's supposed to be good for your mental health. Besides that, it's not like anyone knew back then that alcohol kills germs, people barely knew about the concept of germs. Alcohol only had one use back then; getting people drunk. It's just another example of how religious teaching is outdated and has been made irrelevant by science.
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