It hadn’t hit my radar screen until recently that the founder of Dominos Pizza funds the theocratic forces in the USA.

Now I’ll feel a little uncomfortable buying Dominos Pizza.

I’m not a big boycotter. But if I develop bad feelings about a product due to the politics of the ownership, I’ll make an effort to choose a competing product.

When ownership chooses to become politically active on controversial issues, ownership expects that some people will be put off. Dominos has its say, I have mine, you have yours, and we all peacefully co-exist agreeing to disagree.

Anyway, the excerpt from DailyKos is below, followed by a few of the Kos community’s comments about the Biblical references to Swine, etc, and some discussion of which Biblical passages people choose to follow (an interesting topic worthy of many posts, BTW)

Food for thought.

Daily Kos: Apparently God likes Domino’s Pizza

In an article regarding this story by The Boston Phoenix, Tom Monaghan stated:

Ave Maria won’t be just a university, he continues. It will also be a new town, built from scratch, in which the wickedness of the world will be kept at bay. “We’ve already had about 3500 people inquire on our Web site about buying a home there — you know, they’re all Catholic,” Monaghan says excitedly. “We’re going to control all the commercial real estate, so there’s not going to be any pornography sold in this town. We’re controlling the cable system. The pharmacies are not going to be able to sell condoms or dispense contraceptives.” A private chapel will be located within walking distance of each home. At the stunning church in the center of town, Mass will be said hourly, seven days a week, from 6 a.m. on. “So,” Monaghan concludes, with just a hint of understatement, “it’ll be a unique town.”

What this means is that his desire is to see that only Catholics are allowed to buy property in his city, and he is going to push for strict restrictions on who owns a business and what type of a business it is.

See the following “Comments” readers left to the KOS article excerpted above:

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It’s ingredients also also violate the Word of God:

From the Book of Leviticvus:

11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

So much for pepperoni and sausage pizzas,

11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

..and also shrimp, crab, lobster, calamari toppings, too.

Yeah, yeah, I know this guy who runs Domino’s is a Catholic, and they did some sophistry a long time ago to show that they don’t need to follow the rules (except, I guess for the so-called 10 Commandments”) in what they call the “Old Testament.”

Local Stores, local schools, local work

by Menachem Mavet on Thu Jun 30th, 2005 at 10:44:01 PDT
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Please also see the following comment responding to the comment excerpted above

* [new] I Think It’s Foundational to Christianity (none / 0)

Jesus was a teacher of what he felt was the purpose of the law–simplistically, charity towards the downtrodden–and at several points he violated either some law or someone’s interpretation of one in the moment.

The pertinent example is that he was called out once for eating with unwashed hands, and replied that it’s what comes out of the mouth that defiles man, not what goes in.

After his death, in the time of Paul and the “New Testament” books, it was worked out that people could join the movement without adhering to Jewish laws & practices if they stuck to the teachings of Jesus. The various sects of Christianity have given very different emphases among Jesus’ teachings and the earlier Jewish scriptures as they record them.

Now, for reasons nobody’s ever explained to my satisfaction, the fundamentalist “Christians” seem to reject many if not most of Jesus’ teachings (although they require allegiance to his name), and emphasise bits of Jewish law that were selected by a process I for one don’t understand.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy….–ML King, “Beyond Vietnam”

by Gooserock on Thu Jun 30th, 2005 at 12:08:42 PDT
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