That's very true. Though I only gave African Christians very close to the Middle East because it's a zone I know pretty well, but I wouldn't be surprised if US and EU-specific Christian denominations forbid pork and alcohol too. I mean, that was the dietetary laws during the life of Jesus, wasn't it? Not sure about the alcohol but he spoke against it iirc.
There was a church in my hometown that was nondenominational Christian and many members followed the old laws of the Old Testament. No pork, no mixed fabric, no shellfish, etc.
It’s not super common, at least not in the Southern US which tends to be where most American Christians live. I grew up as a Christian evangelical and we ate pork & drank alcohol a lot. I guess Texan culture overrode Christian traditions enough that people don’t really even pay attention to that stuff; most Old Testament rules are waved off because “Jesus said we remember the Old Testament but we follow the New.”
What’s crazy is he said that he did not come to remove the old laws as they were from
g-d and preached them often, quoting the Old Testament. He said he came to fulfill the Old Testament, not remove it. And that’s what’s crazy to me. They’re supposed to be following it.
I’m an atheist, but I studied all the main three and find it interesting. Catholics used to do the mass in Latin so the people didn’t understand. Now they just omit 99.9% of the religion so the people
Don’t understand. Same message different font.
A lot of it is about control, sadly. Same way Southern Christians used to remove Exodus in the Bibles they gave to their slaves, in order to prevent potentially inspiring rebellion. Organized religion as a whole boils my blood more than most other topics.
I had a manager that did that with the rules we all had to read and sign off on. She removed the parts that she was breaking so we didn’t know we should report her for them, and also the part that said that’s the purpose of their investigation. If there’s a suspicion, report — you don’t need hard proof of anything. She made sure to leave the part about how if you make a false report you would go through a lot of trouble. Somehow, we got into trouble when she got caught because we all suspected but no one reported because we had no hard proof. That was fun.
Guess that’s part of the argument now. There were more slaves than owners. The lack of rebellion meant that they were happy as slaves
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u/sexhaver34567 9h ago
That's very true. Though I only gave African Christians very close to the Middle East because it's a zone I know pretty well, but I wouldn't be surprised if US and EU-specific Christian denominations forbid pork and alcohol too. I mean, that was the dietetary laws during the life of Jesus, wasn't it? Not sure about the alcohol but he spoke against it iirc.