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Our World, Spiritually Polluted

Last week, we talked about the curious taboos that marked the Old Testament.

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by MARK SHEA, Register correspondent Wednesday, Nov 29, 2006 8:00 AM Comment

Last week, we talked about the curious taboos that marked the Old Testament.

Such taboos are not really very strange to us if we think about it, which is why you did not start your day with a heaping helping of nutritious insect larvae, despite the fact that they are perfectly healthy to eat.

My point was that God has taken this natural impulse to say “Ick” — to regard certain things as...

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