Armies of comedians ought to be investigating Jewish and
Christian history and theology on a full time basis, mining these
endless deposits of absurdity.
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But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall
ye not eat.
Genesis 9:4
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It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout
all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 3:17
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Ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of
beast, in any of your dwellings. Whatsoever soul it be that
eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
Leviticus 7:26-27
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And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of
the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner
of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth
blood, and will cut him off from among his people. ... No
soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that
sojourneth among you eat blood. ... Ye shall eat the blood
of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the
blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.
Leviticus 17:10-14
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But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of
idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and
from blood. ... For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to
us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary
things; That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and
from blood....
Acts 15:20, 28-29
Two thousand years ago, it was thought that our blood was our life, simply
because it was observed that those who lost their blood, also lost their
life.
These biblical quotations are what led the Jehovah's Witnesses to refuse
blood transfusions. This is just plain stupid.
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