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According to lore, when Jesus died he said that the old specific laws (no eating pork, no tattoos, etc) aren't really important anymore. what matters is the big picture. its really common to hear "the bible says no eating pork and Christians eat pork. God = false" but that's not how it works at all. That's why the bible is divided into two parts. A lot of stuff is still relevant from the old testament but not all the laws are required.

Plus, groups like the Westboro baptist church are like the ISIS of Christianity; they don't provide an accurate example of what most Christians are like. Mostly the attitude towards homosexuality is "we don't recommend it but we still love you as a person."

source: i live in the south

 

Well a lot of the specific laws pre-Jesus were made to keep the Jews safe from common health issues. For example, pork has to be prepared properly or else it can cause food poisoning pretty easily. They didn’t have a method to really cook things safely so it was for their own protection. Same reason why lepers were considered “unclean”: to keep the disease from spreading.
Sort of like when a parent tells a small child they can’t have 17 popsicles and the child doesn’t understand. The important thing is that the child just does what they are told and they will understand why later on. Bible time Jews didn’t know why they shouldn’t eat pork, but they did what they were told, and now we understand why.