by Freemage » Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:01 pm
Well, to be fair, SOME of the Levitcus restrictions can be gotten around by citing Paul (it should be noted that "Christianity", as it's practiced by much of the Christian community, is very explicitly "Pauline Christianity"--that is, the writings commonly attributed to Paul, nee Saul, are often treated with as much reverence and devotion as the actual Gospels.
Paul led a mini-revolution within the Church, which led to the shedding of the more unpopular restrictions and requirements of Judaism. In addition to declaring that any food-animal made by God must be clean in God's eyes (and thus permitting bacon-wrapped shrimp), he also argued against what he dismissed as the "circumcision party"--that is, those members of the early Christian sect led by James who felt that Gentiles wanting to worship Christ needed to convert to Judaism first. Paul realized that getting a bunch of Greek and Roman men to let a moile anywhere near their foreskins was going to be a non-starter, so he opted to push the idea that Christ's death paid for the Abrahamic sacrifice once and for all, so no more blood-debt.
However, Paul was very much himself a prude, possibly asexual as well (he claimed to live without any sex at all, and basically created the meme so common among the fundies, that sex within marriage is still somewhat sinful, but it's okay so long as you don't enjoy it too much). So his writings re-iterated the condemnations of homosexuality, and many of the anti-women rules as well. He also had some lovely teachings about how slaves should remain loyal to their masters (unless they were willing to be full-time evangelists, in which case a Christian slave-owner should release the slave as a 'brother in Christ' and then send him to work for Paul).
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