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I did‘t say that sprinkling bacon bits in a salad makes the people eating it defiled and contaminated. I NEVER heard that, ever. I heard what was required to keep kosher, and skipping the bacon was one such requirement.This I am well aware of. People follow the talmud, what Jesus called the traditions of men.
I prefer to believe that the living God has more substance than to be concerned with diet fashion and the sexual preferences of consenting adult bipeds. So from your perspective I worship and comply with the laws of an unknown God. I would never worship a petty tyrant.
I am sure that you have been well aware since grade school that people of every culture language tribe and nation have been comparing other people to lower beasts according to their displayed attributes to either praise or insult. I see the animals in the divine menu as metaphors for human archetypes, their flesh a metaphor for their beliefs ideologies etc.
Kosher law in this light is easy to follow and its not all on the woman. Do you think that if someone sprinkles bacon bits in a salad the whole family is defiled and contaminated?
I like you too but isn't that insane? Wouldn't God be concerned with what goes into the mind?
You are not defiled, nor an awful human being, or contaminated, or whatever if you eat pork, but you are not keeping kosher.
You want to argue it’s a metaphor. But the law is the law. You want to interpret it differently, fine…..but don’t tell an observant Jew that you eat pork and also keep kosher. You can’t do both.