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Originally Posted by levite
I had a high school student who swore up and down to me that democracy came from the Bible. And I had an adult student (for a conversion class) that legitimately thought that it was prohibited by the Bible for Jews to eat soy bacon or vegetarian chicken with cheese, because not only can we not eat nonkosher foods, "we can't eat anything that resembles them!" (Untrue, and weird.)
Not to mention, of course, the legions of students who are convinced that the Bible prohibits masturbation (it doesn't), or sex before marriage (it doesn't), or suchlike....
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This is what happens when people go reading the Talmud without any context or background. They get to something like Marit Ayin and somewhere in six pages of rabbinical argument and thought exercises they somehow come to the conclusion that it's divine law.