• @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      Next explain why you can eat fish when you aren’t allowed to eat meat. It was always about money/scarcity/greed

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        Seriously speaking, does someone have an answer to the land animal meat vs fish thing? I’m curious now

        • @[email protected]
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          1110 months ago

          It was originally the Latin word “carnis”. They invented the fast from meat specifically to mean giving up the best food of, like, beef and chicken. When translated into English, “meat” was the best word they had to refer to the concept of land animal meat.

      • Ricky Rigatoni
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        1610 months ago

        When god flooded the world for 40 days and 40 nights to cleanse it of sin, the fish were entirely unaffected and thus still full of sin. So they deserve to be eatened.

    • @[email protected]
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      2110 months ago

      Let’s face it, if gotchas ever really mattered the Catholic Church wouldn’t exist. Too easy to hand wave any real argument.

    • @[email protected]
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      8810 months ago

      The eggs we buy in supermarkets come from hens who have never seen a cock.

      It’s basically bird menstruation in a shell.

    • @[email protected]
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      6410 months ago

      Yeah, looks like a lot of motherfuckers don’t know how eggs work. Absolutely not a gotcha.

      • skulblaka
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        1010 months ago

        You wouldn’t want to, but if you want to, ask for balut.

        • @[email protected]
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          410 months ago

          It’s not a problem as long as the eggs weren’t incubated for too long. It will take for a while before anything visible developes

        • JackGreenEarth
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          610 months ago

          I wasn’t saying I wanted to, I was just asking if the Catholic Church would let one eat them on Fridays.

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            Some religions outright forbid consumption of balut altogether, so perhaps they wouldn’t?