why are pigs considered dirty by some religions?

Question

under natural conditions pigs forage for food like chickens do ,only when they are farmed by humans do they become dirty ,being forced to live in horrendous filthy pigstys. is there a valid spiritual reason for not eating pigs

but satan appears as a ram (goat) and those religions eat them

goa rocked back then

Answer 1

I DON'T KNOW BUT I THINK ITS FLAT OUT SILLY. ACTUALLY SOME PEOPLE HAVE A PIG FOR A PET AND THEIR ACTUALLY CLEAN ANIMALS AND VERY SMART. THEY ONLY GET DIRTY IF YOU LET EM ROLL IN THE MUD.

Answer 2

The signs for what is kosher and unkosher for Jews are detailed in Leviticus 11, 2-7. There are several examples too: the camel, the coney, the hare and the pig.

During the generations, the loathing toward the pig became bigger and bigger than the loathing toward the other animals and the word "chazir"/ "chazirut" became a symbol for an abominable sin.

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The truth is that there is no rational explanation for this hatred, and rational has nothing to do with religion.
Maimonides wrote that the pig is fat and gluttonous, that he's damp and breeds filth. But it sounds like Maimonides is justifying the idea, not explaining it.
Marvin Harris is suggesting another theory that says that the pigs were hated because they did not fit the Israeli climate (pigs don't have any sweat glands) and the Israelites knew how important the pig is in European cultures. But this theory is full of holes too.

There is another theory that I like the most: it says that the pig is hated in Judaism because it LOOKS like it is kosher; the pig shares a great anatomic resemblance to the kosher animals, but it is not ruminant, therefore it is not kosher.
The common sense tells us that we love to hate the hated ones only if they look like they're ok. Judaism has nothing against the cat, for example, because it doesn't buffaloing us: cats do not look like the "permitted" animals. The same thing about Amalek: the Amalek is the most hated people mentioned in the bible, but genetically, they are one of the closest people to the Hebrews!

And not only the pig is similar to the kosher animals, it is similar to the MAN, lords of creation: the pig eats almost everything and it is fattening really fast. The pig is pink and smooth (a very rare feature in the continental mammals), it is very inelegant and friendly, and his face and buttocks are almost human! Doctors call the pig "the horizontal man" and they transplant pig's organs in human bodies because of the amazing anatomical-biochemical resemblance.
The Talmud tells us that the resemblance between the pig and the man was known at the time and there is a story about Rabbi Yehuda: His students came to him and told him that there's a great plague among the pigs. The Rabbi told them to announce a communal fast and they asked him if he thinks that one specie's plague should hurt all species. The Rabbi said "no. the pigs' case is different because they are like us".

The pigs arouse ambivalent feelings among all cultures: some like and admire them; some hate and despise them; in some of the cultures it is not quite clear whether the pig is beloved or hated and along with the prohibition of eating the pig they celebrated their sacrifices with pigs' meat (the followers of Adonis, the followers of Attic in Syria, the ancient Egyptians).

Judaism despises the pig not because it is filthy like an animal, and not because it is our total opposite, but because it is a bit different than us. It is frightening us because it is so HUMAN. a HUMAN beast, not like the hare or the coney.
this "hybrid" is an animalistic mirror of us, the human race, and that is the reason that many cultures hate it. Dirt is just an excuse for this irrational (natural, though) fear.

Answer 3

Understand that there are parallels of the spirit and the natural...if you look at the pig and what it does to you or can do to you...it can cause high blood the pig does not mind wallowing in the mud ...it is that mentality and the uncleanness that spiritually God wants us to get away from...you know don't mind rolling around in the mud...it is also a scavenger so it will eat anything...and that is also unclean...so being unclean is a problem..because that is something God is not...now even with all that...in the new testament Paul showed ...that all meats if they have been sanctified..are OK to eat...so to eat for religious reasons ..no more exists God bless

Answer 4

If you were to see what pigs eat when they forage in hot countries you would understand why both Judaism and Islam say that it is wrong to eat or even touch pig. Ask anyone who passed through Goa, India between 1965 and 1985 if they would eat pig reared in Goa. I would personally rather kiss a Typhoid victim.

It is nothing to do with spirituality, it is all to do with preserving your health.

Answer 5

Judaism does not consider pigs to be dirty.
Pigs are considered to be spiritually unclean for a person to eat -- not physically.

Why are they considered spiritually unlclean for consumption?
Well, because the Torah says so. That's why Judaism is a faith, not a science.

Answer 6

Because undercooked pork used to make people sick (Trichinosis); and back then they weren't aware of the actual disease but put 2 and 2 together and realized it was the pork that was causing them to be sick. So they detered people from eating pork by saying pigs were dirty. This is the correct answer. I read the other peoples' answers and they're all wrong and idiots ta boot.

Answer 7

In Judaism and Islam they are considered unclean animals however the reason is uncertain. It is most likely because there was a large scale sickness that killed many people as a result of eating spoiled pig meat.

Answer 8

Yes. Jews, Muslims, and other religions are prohibited from eating pork because pigs are unclean animals. Also, there is medical basis for this. The consumption of pork is VERY unhealthy. For one thing, pork takes 18 hours to digest and most empirical evidence tells us that most pork products are unhealthy.

Answer 9

In hot climates, and many moons ago, pigs carried the tape worm. Jewish and Muslim laws used religious taboos to protect people from disease and infections. Any man who has had sand under his foreskin might understand why desert people recommended circumscision.

Answer 10

because a pig was one of the things that satan appeared as once so says some religions

Answer 11

Never heard of that story but it was a porker im sure:)
Ham, bacon and eggs pig sounds very good right now.