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Old 08 May 2014, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Maz
Ultimately it's always the bottom line, it would be naive to believe otherwise.
For the record the bible explicitly forbids the consumption of pork.

http://www.openbible.info/topics/eating_pork
Thanks for the link, Maz. From it there is this key passage from the New Testament:

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...20&version=ESV

Mark 7:15-20 ESV

"There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)