Kingofthehill
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bobistheowl said:Sea Turtles are not fish.
We say duh, but many people in Mexico don't. They eat a lot of endangered turtles because they're not supposed to eat meat on Friday, per the Catholic Church, but fish is allowed, and recommended.
There's no Biblical precedent for the 'meatless Friday' rule. About 500 years ago, the fishermen in Italy wanted to increase their market share of the food industry, so they gave a lot of money to whoever was Pope at the time, to receive an edict that 'believers' were not to eat meat on Friday.
They still do it, because no subsequent Pope has changed the rule, and no Pope probably will, because that would be admitting that a previous Pope had not been infallible, and that the instruction had come from the paper God, not the one who used to smite folks for doing things that pissed him off.
lol