Leviticus 11:20
The only winged insects you may eat are locusts, grasshoppers, and crickets. All other winged insects that crawl are too disgusting for you to eat.
Discuss.
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I bet the Mittster ate some worms last night.
Bear Grylls would disagree.
. You goyem can eat whatever you want …. ants, bees, dung beetles, hornets, cockroaches ????
That is the privilege of not being chosen t put up with Me.
I hear locusts are good in a tabbouleh salad.
Is a newt a winged insect that crawls?
@5
Rough skinned newts are highly poisonous.
Well, if we are talking about what God wants …
I did a simple tax calculation. A Mormon in MItt’s income class, may very well pay more in tithes then he does in taxes! See the calculation on The-AVE.US.
I guess the mantra would be that tithing is good because God says so?
I heard that Leviticus was always cranky and making up rules for everyone to live by because he couldn’t get any pussy.
4. The protein of locusts defeats the vegetarian idea of tabbouleh salad :)
How about Manna from heaven? Archaically spelled mana, is the name of an edible substance that God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert according to the Bible.
Now there’s an idea! After you stupid humans wipe out every other species, eat locusts. You’ll eventually go through all of those, too, but it’ll take a while.
Click here for photo of locust:
http://www.google.com/imgres?i.....fan&d
Okay, so that link didn’t work. It’s supposed to be a picture of a fat locust with two legs that walks upright. You get the idea …
@12, Roger: I think you meant this pic:
Baron Newt Harkonen
@9
You could grill them and serve them as a side dish.
All those old religious taboos about food involved keeping people from eating stuff that might kill ’em, like under-cooked pork. Certain shellfish might look good enough to eat but may be poison.
That’s all they were doing – just incorporating what they viewed as good prevention methods into their religions. Go ahead and eat what you will. If it makes you sick, go puke it up and hope you survive.
@15
They didn’t know about germ theory or fecal coliform back in the bronze age. The Bible’s really just a bronze age self help book. There’s more up to date information to turn to now a days.
“The Bible’s really just a bronze age self help book.”
Agreed. Christianity, in my view, is the final and lasting triumph of the Roman Empire. Some of these Christianists don’t realize that a Pagan, Emporer Constantine, oversaw the building of the Bible. In other words, a Pagan dictated what was to be included in the Bible and what wasn’t to be included. There are a lot of “Christian” stories out there that go against the grain of an organized machine like the Roman Empire. That stuff ended up sealed in clay jars and stashed in caves in places like Nag Hamadi in Egypt.
In other words, the shit was made up as they went along.
http://marcsala.blogspot.com/2.....asons.html
It’s too bad really – there are fewer and fewer safe things to eat.