⚡⛥ Maður Margvalds ⛦⚡ on Nostr: > The example in Mark is exactly that. Religious law being used to justify bullshit. ...

> The example in Mark is exactly that. Religious law being used to justify bullshit.

Incidentally, I take issue even with some of the things prohibited in Mark 7:21. For example "sexual immorality" (πορνεία, porneia) is frequently vilified in various parts of the BuyBull. That has lead to a tonne of needless persecution of people for what is in fact consensual acts between adults which are frankly no one else's business but the people involved. In other places that or similar terms are used to vilify Pagan practices, such as sacred prostitution, etc, which have nothing to do with Jews and are none of their business to comment on. So, I would apply the same logic as you stated (ie. Religious law being used to justify bullshit) to the very tract of scripture being cited to exemplify it. I don't give a rat's ass that some magical super Jew in the 1st century CE supposedly said so. It's bullshit and the only people who are necessarily subject to that law are the one's who subscribe to it voluntarily to govern their own personal conduct. Insofar as Christians (and other Abrahamites) won't take "No." for an answer in respect to others' person and property, then they deserve every reciprocal persecution they receive until they finally get the hint once and for all.