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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Not sure the Gaderene swine would agree - that was one of the reasons I went off him.
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I hear you. That whole episode was not particularly fair to the poor piggies. That's one of the reasons I became a Buddhist ... we are at the very least supposed to try to treat all the specks (human or not) as well as possible.
Of course, it is important to remember that particular story in its complete context. Pigs were (and are) considered to be "unclean animals" in the Jewish mythos. Since Jesus was a Jew, as were all of his earliest followers, the unclean animals would have been the proper place to cast demonic spirits. Although, honestly, why he couldn't have used a passing swarm of flies or gnats will always remain a mystery to me.
