and then they drink his blood
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So, it’s OK if I add some long pig to the shopping list I have queued with Instacart?
Perhaps. Leviticus says that animals/beasts that live on land must chew cud and have cloven hooves to be eaten. It’s beyond my Biblical and linguistic knowledge to speculate whether humans are counted as an animal/beast. Were it only the second version I’d argue “no, humans aren’t beasts”, but there is clearly a translation issue going on where it could mean “warm-blooded, hairy flesh-sacks” and therefore include human.
Never mind. Shopper says it’s out of stock, but they’ve substituted in a ham.
Does this imply that it was “in stock” at some point? 
How many humans do you know that have cloven hooves?
well, there’s my mother-in-law, that one ex-girlfriend, my high school English teacher, an irresponsible RA in college…
[calculating]…
eleven?
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obligatory Friends gif
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What about all the humans that wear Maison Margiela Tabis? I had never heard of these popular cloven hoof shoes until today (but I am an actuary after all.)
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The Romans read that, and believed that the early Christians engaged in ritual cannibalism when they celebrated the eucharist. I took a class is “history of the early Christians”, and we read a lot of translations of contemporary texts, including some really gory descriptions of Christians stealing Romal babies, encasing them in a giant ball of dough, throwing that ball around the room until the baby was dead, and then eating the thing.
(Also, since the Christians called each other “brother” and “sister”, they thought they routinely engaged in incest.)
Sounds a little far-fetched? Roman version of QAnon?
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It all happened in the basement of a pizza joint…
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Oh, I don’t think any of that was real, but I don’t think it was Q-Anon, either. I think the Christians were this weird sect and people misheard snippets of what they did (this is my body you eat) and made up the rest.
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Well, Pravda, Texas and Japanese school books, etc.
I.e.,government approved news sources.
So that’s where the baby in the King Cake comes from!
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Isn’t QAnon approved by House leadership and the former administration?
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GA man gets a speeding ticket with a $1.4 million fine. Must be a typo, right? Nope. Apparently this tactic is being used to make sure super speeders show up for their court date. This guy was going 90mph in a 55 zone.
This reminds me of some Scandinavian countries were your fine is adjusted for your income level and the severity of the infraction.
€121,000 speeding fine!
Does anyone believe this would pass constitutional muster?
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It seems like a better option would be to just go after actual criminals instead of using traffic law as a lottery for small towns’ coffers.