Sunday Sermonette: Yadda yadda yadda

Deuteronomy 14 is mostly a rehash of material from Exodus and Leviticus. Not much to say about it except to point out some contradictions and absurdities. 14 You are the children of theLord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead,2 for you are a people holy to theLord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, theLord has chosen you to be his treasured possession.I ' m not sure how this follows. 3 Do not eat any detestable thing.4 These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.[a]6 You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and that chews the cud.7 However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you.8 News flash Yahweh: Rabbits and hyraxes are not ruminants and do not chew the cud.  Also, you are mighty forgetful. Here ' s what you said just two chapters ago. (For the fun of it, this is the KJV.):15 Notwithstandingthou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee:the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.The pig is also unclean;...
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