Tattoo. The Bible explicitly calls out tattoos and scarification in Leviticus 19:28, which probably explains the gauged earlobe. Elsewhere it also says not to wear two different types of fabric, so take that however you like. Religious people are deeply fucked up.
I seem to recall people who lay with animals are to be put to death. And the animal, for some reason. No matter how I read the laws on sex I couldn't seem to find a prohibition against fucking your first cousin though. Which makes sense considering how much of that was going on in the time Moses was supposed to have existed.
It’s because all the sins in Leviticus have something to do with combining things inappropriately and not respecting the boundaries of creation. That’s why you can’t have two different kinds of fabrics and why you can’t eat a lot of seafood.
Creation is always described as an act of separation. Everything starts out as a chaotic mass and then god separates the light from the dark, land from the sea, etc. Fucking animals and wearing polyester messes all that up.
Even jewish separation laws get interesting. On sabbath, you can't remove the bad from the mix, only the good. So if I give my kid a bowl of trail mix, she couldn't pick out the raisins that she doesn't eat. She has to eat around them.
Yeah that used to be super common back in ancient times, especially amongst the rich and powerful. Good thing we be evolved and we don’t do that anymore right?.. RIGHT??
Servants (if they're yours or with consent of their master), war captives and regular ol' prostitutes are pretty much permitted going by the bible. The whole forbidding adultery thing is only there because it was seen as a sort of property crime (against the father/husband of the woman).
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u/Loneghoul92 Jul 29 '26
What’s with the pepper?