Eniolohunda:
ALHAMDULILAH FOR BEING A MUSLIM. YOU SEE NAIRALAND CHRISTIANS ARE THE MOST INTOLERANT AND STUPID THAT I'VE EVER SEEN. WHENEVER THEY SEE A TREND ABOUT OTHER RELIGIONS, THEY MUST SURELY COME AND SHOW THEIR STUPIDITY, YET THEY CLAIM MOST PEACEFUL AND ALWAYS CRYING MARGINALIZATION. BUNCH OF ILLITERATES!

truthCoder:


This is one of the reforms christianity sought to bring to the rigid judaism.

Islam is a bad photocopy of adulterated judaism. Most of the core concepts of islam including pork as haram was copied from the books of moses.

Judaism, Islam and other Mesopotamian religions all share an hatred for pigs.

Early christians and jews under roman occupation found it hard seeing the new conquerors eating well cooked pork and as society was adapting, questions were being asked.

This answer you quoted is a very smart way of balancing the equation as the christian body was being populated by people of all cultures including non circumscised gentiles, as they were called.

An outright ban on pork by the christian leaders would have meant instant loss of followership from the the new folk.

By the time mohammed formed his islamic sect 500 years later, civilized Mesopotamia has changed and cultures have mixed.

Unfortunately, the core inter lands like present day mecca and medina were still of the old and uncivilized stock with people still practicing cultures that had long being ancient even by the standards of that period.

If muhammed had grown up in egypt or damascus before forming islam, the ruling on pigs would have been different

ddeola:


You are making sense jare, how come dem never kill demsefs finish if na true? And na who enter their camp to see wetin really happen and still come out to spread d news? Hmm........na who b mumu