The Ancient Israelite prohibition on pork was a general Levantine area (the Severan Emperors didn't eat pork either, and they were pre-Christian Syrians) due to pigs not really being an efficient food source in the desert. If Israel's religion had originated in Northern Europe the taboo would be goats.
The problem with this is that the United States appears to want to have its cake and eat it too. Sure, there was no terrorism problem in the Soviet Union, but then the state had spies in people's soup and the overall quality of life was......poor at the best of times. To understate it. Democratic societies must have standards, or else we end up with a "democracy" that in truth is nothing but dictatorship with a thin veneer of the old system over it.
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Date: 24/11/10 16:05 (UTC)The Ancient Israelite prohibition on pork was a general Levantine area (the Severan Emperors didn't eat pork either, and they were pre-Christian Syrians) due to pigs not really being an efficient food source in the desert. If Israel's religion had originated in Northern Europe the taboo would be goats.
The problem with this is that the United States appears to want to have its cake and eat it too. Sure, there was no terrorism problem in the Soviet Union, but then the state had spies in people's soup and the overall quality of life was......poor at the best of times. To understate it. Democratic societies must have standards, or else we end up with a "democracy" that in truth is nothing but dictatorship with a thin veneer of the old system over it.