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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (57)	5/7/2003 1:42:01 PM
From: E. T.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

"What do you think about Jewish Kosher & Muslim Halal eating practices." I don't know much, if anything, about Halal (and I'm not far behind on the kosher front). All I know (or think I know) about the Judaic dietary laws is that they are for keeping holy, that the rules are divine arbitrary edicts, not to be made sense of, as oppposed to all other Hebraic religious obligations which are fair game for scrutiny. "Hoping that its followers will not be clever enough to see the about-face... Is THIS "History's effect on Religion", then, I wonder?" Perhaps, but consider this... the current christian sensibility regarding hell, purgatory, etc, only became a religious belief after Dante wrote (???what was it) the Inferno and Paradise... around ???1350???. Also, do you know the story of (sp)Sabidia Zevi(sp)1660 -1750 or therabouts, where almost every jewish person in the world believed he was the messiah, until he was, under duress, to claim otherwise.