If muslim people don't eat pork because it is dirty than a big many muslims aren't totally muslims? (Description)?
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Smoke is dirty, but they do it anyways.
ps. it is not a case with just muslims.
Answers to this question:I will restrain my answer because I have way too many thoughts.
So I'll focus my answer on the pig. First of all, I am an animal lover. While I have never had a pig and would not have a pig for a pet and would never eat an animal I raised, I know enough about pigs and animals in general to say one emphatic thing: A pig and any other animal will be dirty in its behaviors or pen IF IT IS KEPT IN DIRTY SURROUNDINGS. End of story. A pig as a pig is not dirty. If given leftovers to eat, it will eat ravenously what is put before it. It will wallow in mud but that's because it is grooming and does not have a tub to shower in. Horses roll in the mud to get insects off hide. They get bodily dirty but when they dry and shake and rub and run, they get clean. Our little chincilla rolls around in fine sand to get clean, and so on. We make our animals dirty by penning, confining and depriving them - even the muslim's goats and lambs will clean themselves in dirt and mud. And, if given nothing but yucky stuff to eat, they'll eat yucky stuff. I'll climb off my animal soapbox now...
Yeah i totally agree with you, pig is same like any other animal and besides, they are all cleaned before selling ._.
I think this is an example of Biblical strictures that are no longer relevant to modern life. Maybe if the Bible were written today, God would say "don't eat eggs, salmonella." Pigs are only dirty when they are kept dirty. You have to wash their filth away every day, because the pig can't do that. Also, the pig's natural way is to root in the dirt with its snout. They use their nose like a shovel, to eat roots.
But, there is an alternate explanation for this, which is that the pig is dirty is a misunderstanding. I heard a Jewish rabbi say that the pig was forbidden because God forbade it, and it was not ours to question why. He said was it too much to ask of his children to simply obey his commands, even if they didn't understand them?
I raised a pig once. And I ate it. My father was Jewish, but he ate pork. He wasn't very religious later in life. I take after him that way. With that said, I love pigs as animals. I eat meat because I'm really an animal pretending to be a human.
haha..Greg, you are really an animal pretending to be a human. I am getting a bit confused but I like your frankness. Can't help chuckling...........
Thats it Gregory!
Yeah i also read it that it is not ours to question why while researching before i question this. I really like the thoughts of your first paragraph and i must also say that many little things "they" forbid can be manually learned and understood while following the core principles for example we know that God is everywhere and in air, we shouldnt smoke because smoke is really bad for air, than the cars come in question, in the end the whole world will change a lot positively, it already started.
Ooh, Gregory. You're tougher than I am. I'm forever grateful that other people are willing to kill, clean and prepare meat for me to cook with. If I had to raise it to eat it I'd starve. :)
I always thought the prohibition against eating pork was because of the risk of contracting trichinosis from the trichina parasite harbored by most pigs. My guess was that in ancient times, it was noticed that more people who ate pork died and so the connection was made and pork was prohibited.
Yap, your answer is pretty much connected with Greg's, i guess those were old rules, i guess people couldn clean up the way we can now.
Thanks Dianne!
Total Answers: 4, Total Page Views: 1,209.It's in the bible nothing of the cloven hoof but heh I like my Canadian bacon yumy have to go make supper now....see what you started
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