Comments on: Parasites and Piety https://www.isegoria.net/2017/02/parasites-and-piety/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2017/02/parasites-and-piety/comment-page-1/#comment-2539314 Gaikokumaniakku Sun, 05 Feb 2017 23:37:34 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41414#comment-2539314 The exact history of Judaism is in dispute.

The pork prohibition was related to social class and taxation in Egypt — lower-class people ate pork because temple priests couldn’t tax pork. (Taxes were collected by marching livestock across desert. Cows survived. Pigs didn’t. Thus pork was tax-free.)

The history of Egypt fails to confirm the claims of the Old Testament.

Religious Judaism is probably of very, very recent origin; possibly 440 BCE.

]]> By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2017/02/parasites-and-piety/comment-page-1/#comment-2539278 Adar Sun, 05 Feb 2017 16:30:24 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41414#comment-2539278 Phineas in the Bible caught the Hebrew man and a Canaanite woman coupling. Phineas killed them both and then stabbed the woman through the private parts as an indication of his indignation. Probably some sort of venereal disease spread from the Canaanite to the Hebrew. Folks back then “coupled” with animals in an unnatural manner as part of religious ritual.

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