re: #118 Buck

If the rules of Kashruth started as a way to institutionalise a ban against cruelty to animals would that be rational to you?

No, given how many of them have nothing to do with animals.

You think that all of the rules started with “God said so”. You are wrong.

No, I don’t. That was an obviously shortening of “because the religious rules dictate that it be so”.

The head covering is to remind the man that there is a separation between him and the higher power.

What higher power, Buck? You don’t believe in a higher power, remember?

To be reminded, every day of your life, to be humble. To be reminded, every day of your life, of your place in the universe.

Given that you’re an atheist, you should believe that it’s actually misinformation about your place in the universe, since you don’t believe in a god, remember?