lauraanne_gilman | the way things work in here...

y'know, you really shouldn't be enjoying that pork you had for lunch quite so much. even though it was very good.
why not?
well, you're not supposed to eat pork. technically, and not that this has ever stopped you.
hey, I don't eat ham. anyway, the pig is an enviromentally sound animal to eat. unlike, say, a cow.
still. it's not kosher.
why not? because God said so? God can tell me why, then.
isn't the whole point about faith being that you don't question? you leap because S/He Looked?
yeah, and there's that slippery line that bothers me. when you're used to God saying 'eateth not the swine' and you say 'okey-doke God' and then Gods says 'killeth the unbeliever' and you're already primed to say 'okey-doke, god?' Not working for me. God wants me to kill, God can damned well say why. God wants me to pack off a nutritionally and enviromentally solid food source? again, tell me why.
goes for governors, too, so long as we're back in biblical/roman terms. a thinking faith's a loverly thing, if not so scary-strong as the unthinking kind. hrmm. food. faith. politics.
there's a story in there.
I'm sure there is. you go find it, I'm already working on the whole "love forever, live forever' thing we came up with on our way to lunch.