Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for November 05, 2020

Well, I’ll give him this; he mentioned wool and linen, and not polyester, as so many do.

And men’s wool suits frequently have linen in the collars. It’s called shatnez, and you can send a new suit to the Shatnez Laboratory to have it fixed by removing the linen.

Even the Romans outlawed killing slaves, eventually. Less for moral reasons than because the slave supply has dried up.

Old Testament God-Man. That gathering sticks business was firmly rejected by New Testament God-Man.

If God-man is God and perfect in every way, why is there a New Testament? A perfect being would have got it right the first time.

According to Moses Maimonides, the prohibition against mixing wool and linen was given because the Sabian priests (the religion Abrahamic tradition supplanted) conducted rites while wearing a wool garment (animal kingdom) and a linen garment (vegetable kingdom) and carrying a crystal (mineral). The idea behind a lot of the seemingly-arbitrary prohibitions was (according to Maimonides) NOT to do what the competition said you HAD to do. It was a safeguard against people hedging their bets by following the old ways as well as the new.

Seems plausible enough to me, but I don’t know what the Sabian line on gathering sticks was…

“Oh, their religions are the best

They worship themselves yet they’re totally obsessed

With risen zombies, celestial virgins, magic tricks, these unbelievable outfits

And they get terribly upset

When you question their sacred texts

Written by woman-hating epileptics"

Thank dog we are atheist and can mix our fabrics and eat cheeseburgers and drink milkshakes with them. And I like my cousin and her wife, I would not want to stone them. Getting stoned with them is another matter.

Rules are rules.

Godman needs an editor. Linen is either a noun or an adjective. Wool(l)en is only an adjective. For this sentence to parse, both fiber-terms should be noun.

Ah…the teachings of “The Good Book”.

Who can argue with that?