Response to "Food Restrictions"

The purpose of not eating certain foods or not using modern technology on a certain day is to reaffirm the belief that there is a god. That is it. If a person is not concerned or even afraid of the effects of eating bacon for Sunday brunch, then why not eat it?

This is another example of god creating rules about how people can live their lives. Read the bible or the torah and you will come acros many of these rules. Some of the rules would be good to follow, such as never harm your neighbor. Some of these rules would not be good to follow, such as stoning homosexuals.

If these rules are followed, people can expect good things. If these rules are broken, you can expect terrible plagues and an eternity in hell. Who wants to live under such a dictator?

And in response to the Greek gods; it is true that 99% of all the gods humans used to believe in are no longer "around". Humanity has come very close to becoming completely atheist, just one more god to go!

If you went up to someone and seriously claimed to believe in Zeus, you would no longer be taken seriously. If you believed in a man who lived in the sky and produced lightning bolts with his hands, you would correctly be laughed out of the room. And in the world we live in, those people have been brushed back into obscurity.

But somehow, believing in a man being born of a virgin or believing in a man who literally walked on water is taken very seriously in most of the world.