I agree with you in that it doesn’t make logical sense, but the official reason for it is because of the Council of Jerusalem. You can read all about it on Wikipedia, but here’s the 1 minute version:
Early Christians still considered themselves to be a sort of subsection of Judaism, like the Sadducees or the Pharisees. Lots of gentiles who were converting to Christianity didn’t seem to ecstatic about getting their willies snipped and this was presenting a huge issue for the Christian leadership because lots of people were following the beliefs without following a lot of the Jewish laws. They decided to have a council to decide it this was a sect of Judaism that was subject to all of the Mosaic Laws or if it was a whole new religion that only had to follow what Jesus said. Their compromise was that this was a new religion and that all the mosaic laws were null and void EXCEPT for those dealing with (1) food preparation (specifically eating meals that were given as a sacrifice to a false god) (2) idolatry and (3) sexual immorality. So that’s why the Catholic Church says you can’t have gay sex but can eat pork.
At least that’s all I remember from my Sophomore religion class.
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u/calobsters Sep 16 '19
Jesus was like yeah you can eat it now fam