Religions' obsession with what we eat and how we eat it.
Where does it come from
People who are fasting often argue that this is good for you but obviously back then where these (rather arbitrary) rules were made no one could have known of that
It has to do with ritual cleanness and the sacred. Depends on the religion, but the basic idea is that this is one of the things sets apart a people, time, or place, from a common to a holy use, or to prepare the way for holiness.
back in the old days, we did not have many health regulations, so to avoid widespread disease, religions made laws about what to eat. Pigs, in ancient times, had parasites that would infect people.
those were the main reasons religion was around, for laws and government. all the stuff about heaven and hell is just to make people obey it.
>>1410618
Because food is an integral part of culture, even today.
All those OT dietary laws talk about how you shouldn't mix with the Caananites, and we do have pig bones in old Caananite archeological digs.
It preserves ingroup/outgroup separation.
Sanitation. Epidemics were a serious, serious issue in the past.
>>1410618
Ritual was a way to preserve one's culture in a sea of other cultures, especially when you didn't like other cultures but otherwise had to put up with their existence. In areas with a lack of hard geographical borders and lots of human migration and trade, like the Middle East for example, it became important for a people to set themselves apart clearly or else risk blurring the lines between themselves and others.
You and your people have a god or a pantheon of gods. This religion is unique to you, but just upstream there's another town or tribe who worship a different god, and may even speak a different language, have different ancestral invaders than you, and may even have different trades and livelihoods than your own. And every day their merchants and tradesmen come down to your town for business and work because there's no mountain range or forest to isolate you from them as they bring their odd ways to your people. But you are your own people, and of course you are blessed by your god, who likes you just the way you are. So all the things you do you do in service and deference to this god, making them good and holy and worth keeping pure from contamination from the ways of other people and other gods.
>>1410639
But poultry, especially chicken, has even more parasites. I mean, you can cure raw pork just fine but eating an uncooked chicken is ill-advised even today. Also their eggs have salmonella.
>>1411442
The meat of chickens and their eggs cook rather quickly, quicker than pork anyway; at least in my experience working as a cook.
>>1410618
It's designed to highlight your distinct cultural identity. That's why for example, Jews have circumcision as a practice.
>>1410618
It shows that the focus was to convert the nobles to get recognition and power.
It was only the nobles who would suffer problems with overeating or eating too much meat and fats.
The average pleb was pretty much half-starved anyway, fasting is retarded with the level of extreme poverty that people experienced when these religions grew popular.
>>1410639
>Pigs, in ancient times, had parasites that would infect people.
Literally every animal and fish does that. Why did Christianity realize it didn't matter?
Pigs were often used as garbage disposal back in the days. You'd literally feed your shitbucket to the pigs. Maybe that's why some cultures have trouble eating pork.
>>1411442
Pork is the most difficult "common" meat to cook thoroughly.
>>1410618
Pork is bad because they had hooves yet would eat meat, and shellfish are bad because they live underwater yet don't have fins.
Judaism is the most autistic religion on Earth.
>hurr dietary laws claim God didn't make every edible animal for us to eat where does it come from
Hebrew Bible
>hurr faggotry is banned we have a whole history of homophobia where does it come from
Hebrew Bible
>hurr religious iconoclasm, sectarianism, intolerance, violence and God-sanctioned genocide where does it come from
Hebrew Bible
>hurr creationism
Hebrew Bible
>hurr anthropomorphization of God
Hebrew Bible
>hurr monotheism
Hebrew Bible
>hurr everything else that could possibly be wrong with how I experience religion and how it interacts with me
Hebrew Bible
>>1410618
To make sick and weak
Due to centuries of agriculture your brain goes into overdrive when you are starving in order to induce you to use long term thinking skills and plan for a bad harvest, and not eat all your food at once. The people who didn't died off.
>pulled out my ass but the fasting thing has something to do with artificially inducing this state of mental consciousness
