Yes! I always think about the fact that the Hebrew law against eating pork is because the ancient tribes were migrant herders, and their competition was farming communities. You can’t herd pigs, but you can herd sheep, and you don’t want to enrich those other people so you make a dictate against eating pork. Not politics, but economics, although in a lot of ways that’s a distinction without a difference.
Yes! I always think about the fact that the Hebrew law against eating pork is because the ancient tribes were migrant herders, and their competition was farming communities. You can’t herd pigs, but you can herd sheep, and you don’t want to enrich those other people so you make a dictate against eating pork. Not politics, but economics, although in a lot of ways that’s a distinction without a difference.