• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    God doesn’t want you to mix fabrics or eat certain foods on certain days. “Confusing level of control” is on brand.

    It’s not about making sense though. It’s about making you do what they want so that you know who is in control.

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      1 month ago

      These are not rules of Islam though. On the contrary Islam made many rules of Judaism obsolete, taking away complication in religion. Islam also provided a much clearer theology than Christianity and specifically rejects the “trinity”, “holy people” and other concepts contrary to the oneness of god.

      What the Taliban and other Salafi/Wahabi people do, is quite fringe and it is infuriating that the Brits and later the Americans helped the Saudis to seize power in Arabia and furthered these extremist interpretations.

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      1 month ago

      Not mixing fabrics and certain food practices were originally based on lived experience, like safety guidance, before getting coopted by religion. Kosher practices avoid cross contamination, and mixed fabrics could have something to do with temperature regulation in desert areas where it swings between extreme heat and cold daily. Or it could have existed to discourage lying about prodict quality by those who would sneak in poor quality materials.

      By the time religion got ahold of these concepts they were absolutely twisted into controlling people.