Worth Revisiting - Just Eat The Pork Under Protest!

Thank you Allison Gingras  (Reconciled To You) and Elizabeth Riordan (Theology Is A Verb) for hosting Worth Revisiting. 

Be sure to stop there every Wednesday. You will enjoy your visits.

Here is my contribution:

 

Just Eat The Pork Under Protest! 

(Originally posted on June 30, 2013)

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

One of my favorite characters in the Old Testament (2 Maccabees 6:18-31) is Eleazar, a ninety year old Jewish scribe, a “teacher of the Law.” He was ordered to eat pork in violation of the Mosaic Law or be killed. He preferred death rather than offend God.