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Leviticus rightfully instructs you not to eat bats, but it seems to mistake them for special birds rather than mammals.

• nyeah 1y ago
  There can't be much meat on a bat anyway.
  • soperj 1y ago
    there's not much on a snail either, but they're still delicious.
    • nyeah 1y ago
      They're fine. Mostly the butter stuff tastes good. I wouldn't put snail up there with badger or owl.
• rsynnott 1y ago
  Wait, is there a _specific_ prohibition? Like, they fail Old Testament dietary rules miserably _anyway_.
  • NewJazz 1y ago
    These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, [a bunch of other birds] and the bat" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2011:13-19&version=NIV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2011:...
    • rsynnott 1y ago
      Aaah, right, I suppose if you’re assuming it’s a bird it _would_ need a specific call-out, yeah. I was assuming it’d be covered by the hooves-and-stomachs stuff, but if you don’t think it’s a mammal in the first place that wouldn’t work. (From the above: “Bible Gateway is currently unavailable to consumers in the United Kingdom and European Union due to technical issues.” I am now very curious just which EU regulation the bible website was worried about.)