Originally Posted By ecdc I feel like a party pooper (I'm sure someone will find a great pun for that!) talking about the original story, but I've been so busy I haven't commented on much of anything. What struck me is how people like this unwittingly make their gods out to be enormous losers. With all that's going on in the world, Allah is worried about whether a Muslim grocer touches pork? Not the kind of god I'd want to worship. My friend has a rule: God is not a jerk. But plenty of Christians and Muslims sure make him out to be a jerk with all the nonsense they ascribe to him: racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, ignorance, violence, and hatred. Rather than make God out to be a loving deity concerned with humankind, they'd rather swallow whole the tripe contained in their millennia-old sacred texts. I just don't get it.
Originally Posted By jonvn People believe what they are told to believe. They are told to believe god thinks a certain way, so they believe it. There is absolutely no individual thought involved at all.
Originally Posted By DAR <<My friend has a rule: God is not a jerk. But plenty of Christians and Muslims sure make him out to be a jerk with all the nonsense they ascribe to him: racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, ignorance, violence, and hatred. Rather than make God out to be a loving deity concerned with humankind, they'd rather swallow whole the tripe contained in their millennia-old sacred texts. I just don't get it.>> The problem of any religion is that it gets hijacked by the extreme elements. I've been a practicing Catholic my whole life. Right now were in the middle of the Lenten season, which means no meat on Friday's. Last Friday I'm out at dinner and I decide that I don't want to have fish or spaghetti or whatever non-meat dish. I wanted to have a Buffalo Chicken Sandwich. I thought long and hard about it and thought God probably has more important things on his mind than whether or not I have a Buffalo Chicken Sandwich. For the record it was a darn good sandwich.
Originally Posted By jonvn You will burn eternally. The spiciness in that chicken sandwich is but a portent.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Maybe we should release thousand of pigs in the mountainous area of Afghanistan to flush out Osama. If these guys are that darned scared of pork we should use it to our advantage.
Originally Posted By disneydad109 having lived in parts of the 3rd world where you are happy to have something/anything to eat,I live in the hope that the good Lord has left me some leeway in the food rules department. News flash; To everyone reading this. GOD does not want you to go hungry if you can help it. Eat something everyday , we can work out the details later.
Originally Posted By Mr X >>>Just hmong ourselves, what do you all think of turkey sausage? It's one of the few "pretend pork" products I can eat.<<< Are you Jewish? I was really amazed when I went to a Jewish Wedding once... Amazed first of all at how much FOCUS there was on "fake pork"...I mean, the appetizers were all like "turkey-bacon wrapped water chestnuts" and "turkey-ham rolls" etc, etc... Secondly, I was amazed at how TASTY and very "real" that stuff was...it was a first class wedding in any case (spared no expense...typical Jews lol) (YES, Jon, I'm just KIDDING!!). So anyway, I can't really comprehend the "don't eat this" cultures (though if I had a religion of "no beer" and "no mayonaise" I'd be a lot better off!), but coming from a Catholic background I never even paid attention to "no meat on Fridays"...so what do I know? lol.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 No, I am not Jewish - but one tries to substitute less fatty meats for the ones they tell you to eat in lesser quantities. So, I have tried turkey products as a substitute for pork now and then. Unfortunately, I generally don't find turkey to taste very much like the things it is made to replace. That turkey ice cream, for example - just doesn't cut it in my book.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 You beat me to it, mele! There's no substitute for ice cream like the substitute for that substitute.
Originally Posted By jonvn You know, pork can be really low in fat if you get the right kinds. It's the other white meat. Some kinds of ham, for instance has almost no fat at all. "GOD does not want you to go hungry if you can help it." Then GOD needs to provide food for people who are starving in the world.
Originally Posted By disneydad109 He does but people who work for "the other team" sometimes get in the way.
Originally Posted By friendofdd If you get a good premium turkey ice cream, it will taste just like pork ice cream.
