Widdershins Smith 🐘Mar 5, 2023
CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁Jul 21, 2023

@juglugs I mean technically, the eggs you buy at the store normally aren't fertilized, so you're just eating a hen's period.

But don't worry, there are PLENTY of other examples of hypocrisy from the Catholic church.

Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘

@TerrorBite

I mean technically, the rule was made WAY before stores...

Jul 21, 2023 at 6:34amWeb
Show threadKmac2025Mar 1, 2024
@juglugs @TerrorBite Eggs (along with milk and other non-flesh animal products) were allowed in 1941. By then, we could tell. The fast has changed over time, and now we know that unfertilized eggs aren’t flesh meat, and they were eventually allowed