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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I literally believe an innocent, defenseless, sentient creature was systematicallty and needlessly tortured and murdered to make this and that my tax dollars paid to subsidize it. If this isn't triggering to me, I can't even imagine how fucking stupid this looks to Muslims who think God forbids it. Like should someone fire back a video of themselves disregarding the Sabbath and expect Christians to care?

And isn't pork haram predominantly because it was considered by people like Muhammad to be impure? So this sounds more like someone sending them a video of scraping gum off the underside of a desk and chewing it. You sure owned them.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It was probably considered impure because pigs have a big parasite issue before industrialization and improper cooking often led to people getting sick or dying.

A lot of religious "rules" can typically be boiled down to trying to keep people alive by making sure they avoid potential dangerous things, increasing their hygiene, or just making life easier and reducing hardships.

It's almost like people in charge realized that it would be easier to get people to do things if it meant going to heaven and avoiding hell instead of jail or something.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My favorite example of this is the protocols for finding mold in your house.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+14%3A33-53&version=NIV

Sure in isolation it's an odd thing for God to care about, but without a doubt it saved countless lives

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 week ago

Super interesting!

He shall kill one of the birds over fresh water in a clay pot. Then he is to take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn and the live bird, dip them into the blood of the dead bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times. He shall purify the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop and the scarlet yarn. Then he is to release the live bird in the open fields outside the town. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.”

Being a priest must have been a very different job back in the day.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 1 week ago

That and drawing a division between the in-group (who must follow the laws, but are protected) and the out-groups (who are filthy barbarians whom one does not fraternise with)

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (16 children)

They think it works that way because that's the way it works for them.

Show them a picture of Mecca and they freak right the fuck out.

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[–] Linkalee@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 week ago

It's projection. If you showed them a rainbow or a Day of the Dead decoration, they'd get super offended and bent out of shape. And because that's how they react to things they don't like, they assume that's how everyone else reacts, too.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The best part of living in an area with a lot of Muslims is all the halal burger places that use beef bacon.

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 36 points 1 week ago

I'm remembering a paragraph of one of the Witcher books where a vampire is at a fancy ball at a royal court and while eating a garlic soup with his silver spoon he was explaining in great detail to a patron seated near him that vampires are deathly afraid of silver and the slightest touch of silver will immediately kill them

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Critical vegan-halal solidarity against cringe meatposturing.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Meat eater here, I also don't like these cringey meat lovers. Worst are the carnivore diet evangelists, they'll call you vegan if you eat any plant based food.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Ugh, I hate the carnivore diet folks because I have a really good friend that did it and actually lost a bunch of weight and got back to being much more healthy and spry. How do you gently bring up the long term crap that it can do without sounding like an ass as your friend gets happier and happier? Luckily he reintroduced vegetables at two months in, but I know of some idiots who don't.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Variation of bone apple tea.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago

bone-petite

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

People seem to forget that Muslims are allowed to touch pork products, they're just not allowed to pray after touching them unless they ritualistically purify themselves by washing their hands, mouth, nose, face, forearms, head, ears and feet (the order is different as well as what parts you wash in different schools of thought).

Doing all that is a bit of a kerfuffle so a good number of Muslims just choose to avoid touching anything that could invalidate their purity, but the worst that can happen is they have to wash themselves again before they pray.

Obviously they're not allowed to eat it, but it's nowhere near as bad as racists would have you think where even being in the presence of pork products is enough to make Muslims melt into the floor like the wicked witch.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

same fuckers that loose their shit when I tell them I prefer dog bacon but I'm also kinda sick of it because I just got back from visiting family in china and my family doesn't cook much of the more well known dishes. we just eat wild/kennel dog and wild salad.

then I ask them why they let heir government officials shoot dogs for misbehaving when they haven't even been trained

Imagine being both such a lame troll and having this much time on your hands

[–] saddlebag@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m probably dumb but why is “this isn’t garlic” funny?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Garlic deters vampires.

The joke is that bacon doesn't deter Muslims.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Some of them actually love it.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

duh it's "bone apple teeth" wut a dumass

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Maybe it’s time to step away from the Nazi table.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

guy puts templar cross in his profile, likely first to die of disease and exhaustion if he actually participated in middle age crusades

I love how they automatically assume they would be high ranking knights drinking wine in the tent whereas they would likely be the cannon fodder.

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