God is on our side (2)
According to Radio 4's loony religious program yesterday morning the Jews have a problem. Are water buffalo (which some Jews wish to eat) kosher or not? To be kosher, apparently, animals must be mammals with cloven feet which chew the cud. The head rabbi was unable to decide on the last of these when presented with a water buffalo skull - he had to see a freshly severed head. "Bring me the head of a water buffalo" - eat your heart out, Peckinpah. Amazing, is it not, that educated, intelligent people in the twenty-first century can still believe god created some animals as 'clean' and others as 'unclean'? Why the f##k should he bother? Yet this ridiculous idea is central to several religions. Although Christianity does not have this problem, it is not without ridiculous ideas of its own. Think of god as a 'loving father' christians are told. I am a father. If I were omniscient and omnipotent I would not allow millions of my kids to be overwhelmed by tsunamis or die of starvation. The theory does not hold water.
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9:34 AM
I too heard the Water Buffalo item absolutely hilarious. I find the whole Kosher concept ridiculous anyway. If early man had invented refrigration ealier then you wouldn't have needed kosher rules for slaughtering various animals and keeping food separate....all of which were just common sense precautions in the pre-tupperwear era to guard against contanimation.
9:40 AM
Come on then. Own up. Who left a comment and then deleted it?
7:29 AM
"If I were omniscient and omnipotent I would not allow millions of my kids to be overwhelmed by tsunamis or die of starvation" - blimey, I would, kids today don't know they're born. All the tsunamis and death by starvation I had as a child never did me any harm.
9:11 AM
"All the tsunamis and death by starvation I had as a child never did me any harm."
Matter of opinion, Perce. Matter of opinion.
12:06 PM
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