[3928] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: religion
mhpower@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 4 00:24:11 1993
> ... some laws ...
>understood to be based on what was sanitarily safe to eat at the time.
Any *specific* religion you happen to be thinking about here? :-)
On the off chance (?) it's relevant, I could mention an argument that
Rabbi Harold Kushner has used on occasion, that people didn't need
religion to tell them not to eat unhealthy meat. Communities at the
time lived fairly close together, and it didn't take particular genius
to figure out cause-and-effect relationships of people getting sick
and dying after eating certain things. So, I don't think the sanitary
issues adequately explain why the restrictions were/are thought to
belong to the realm of religion.
Of course if you were only thinking of views on what's safe to eat
held by some other religion, then maybe you could offer some examples?
