In the viewpoint of a people almost utterly without science? Dood, she's BLEEDING.
It isn't going to make sense today, which is why most Jews who aren't very conservative ignore many of the rules now. After all, how can you have egg-rolls and almond shrimp at Christmas if you're that devout?
sure. The point is, when you have to enforce health and safety rules on a population with little to no education, they almost have to come from a religious standpoint. Look at how our most uneducated republican congresspeople like to ignore scientists on things like global climate change. You can bet your ass if Jesus had said "give a hoot, don't pollute", conservation would be a tea-party tenet.
No, when the nerdy educated jews figured out that you can get trichinosis from pork, and it's smart to cover your head when you work in the sun all day, and boys who are circumcised tend to get fewer infections and STDs, you gotta get the jocks to listen to you somehow. It's the ultimate appeal to authority, because you also have to add in the "I am God, and if you don't listen to me, you're fucked" parts.
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It isn't going to make sense today, which is why most Jews who aren't very conservative ignore many of the rules now. After all, how can you have egg-rolls and almond shrimp at Christmas if you're that devout?
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No, when the nerdy educated jews figured out that you can get trichinosis from pork, and it's smart to cover your head when you work in the sun all day, and boys who are circumcised tend to get fewer infections and STDs, you gotta get the jocks to listen to you somehow. It's the ultimate appeal to authority, because you also have to add in the "I am God, and if you don't listen to me, you're fucked" parts.
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Really?
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