Armies of comedians ought to be investigating Jewish and Christian history and theology on a full time basis, mining these endless deposits of absurdity.

  • But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
    Genesis 9:4

  • It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
    Leviticus 3:17

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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