"Genetically engineered products are an abomination of God's creation"

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50. Deuteronomy 22.11 doesn't mean what you think it does

Christianity is the youngest of the major world religions. The first Christians were basically forced into it, often at the tip of a sword. They'd go to Christian church in the morning and practice the rituals their conquerors demanded, then go home and pray to the gods they'd always prayed to. This had to be stopped if Christianity was to become the dominant religion, so passages telling people not to "mix" things were inserted into the Bible. (The early Christian leaders also liked co-opting the traditions of other religions, which is why Pagans gave each other decorated eggs to celebrate fertility and Christians give each other eggs decorated the same way to celebrate the risen Savior. Same egg, different message.)

Anyone who's ever set a vegetable garden knows better than to follow the "do not sow a field with two types of seed" directive; if you want peas, beans, tomatoes, spinach and corn from your garden, you are "sowing a field with two (well, five) types of seed" if you don't own five fields. Anyone who owns a suit has a garment woven from two different fibers; extremely rare is the suit jacket lined in wool. And if you need to plow a field and all you've got is an ox and an ass, you move the pivot point a few inches in the ox's direction to give the ass a mechanical advantage, and hook 'em up.