&gt;Can you touch on the Hammurapi (however you spell it) and its lack of animal food prohibition (or as far as I can remember, pork at least was not prohibited)?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Code_of_Hammurabi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Code_of_Hammurabi</a><p>I love wikipedia for the links to related subjects. I have read a ton of the various codes and have written papers on the similarities and differences. To keep it short the main idea for the eating is &quot;unclean&quot; and in Mosaic Law it had a good rational on keeping people separated that were &quot;unclean and for health reasons probably saved a ton of people.<p>In our society we know what is bad for us and most of us including me still do eat the bad things. They made it a law even though the general population enjoyed pork, like I do.<p>&gt; Can you talk more about &quot;most are terrified at learning too much&quot;? Do people think through studying rigorously they will inevitably shed beliefs?<p>To really hack to death &quot;Platos Theory of Form&quot; TL:DR The more you know something the more abstract you know it.<p>My theory: Most people struggle with abstract thought i.e. math beyond business math. When they struggle with the abstract thought what happens to their concept of their faith? Do they lose God like they believe others.<p>My wife and I share our belief very dear and close and it is the driving force of our lives. We never talk theology. Her idea is that since I have 2 years of ancient Hebrew and 2 years of Greek and even taught 2nd year Greek in college that I have answers. I would read anywhere between 5,000 to 20,000 pages per class in seminary, that would be around 400-500 pages a week minimum.  I usually go, &quot;It seems ....&quot; or &quot;It depends ...&quot; and than she walks out frustrated.<p>I embrace the unknown and the mystery. I hold to the idea that if God was to be provable He would have made  Himself a concrete object. This came from reading a lot of Soren Kierkegaard and in fact I named my son Soren after him. Kierkegaard came up with the &quot;Leap of Faith&quot; well after studying that the popular belief in that is wrong. It is a leap of despair and dread into the unknown and land upon faith. So it wasn&#x27;t a Leap of Faith but a Leap to Faith.<p>Sorry I am use to writing 20 page papers on subject like this all the time.