My3floofs t1_j6lah1c wrote
Because the fish mongers were having a hard time selling their fish, so they went to the pope and he decreed that people should eat fish on fridays. Nothing religious about it, just a good old business transaction. This carried over to people eating fish all the time.
waltzinair t1_j6lcyg2 wrote
I'm actually curious: Do you have a source of this historical fact?
I'm not Catholic by the way so I also know nothing about the story from within Catholic.
Mrknowitall666 t1_j6ll31f wrote
Flesh Meat = land animals. Fish isn't an animal in the 1sr century
My3floofs t1_j6omcma wrote
Not catholic either but it’s some papal decree. Some say it’s not fish per se but anything cold blooded. The ban was on carne ie warm blooded meat. So fish, veggies, fruit were fine. It’s just another weird religious idea.
GhostMug t1_j6lsjjx wrote
Growing up Catholic I learned this is the correct answer that they never actually told us about.
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morderkaine t1_j6lqjej wrote
Like how Jewish people have the most restricting laws but so many ways around them
Anerky t1_j6lxjz4 wrote
Both Jews and the Amish have many workarounds in terms of the things that are acceptable and unacceptable, it’s almost funny sometimes.
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