Jordan S. Rubin, the author of The Maker's Diet, calls it a "40-day health 'experience' that will change your life forever." A self-described "biblical health coach," and a messianic Jew, Rubin created the diet during his efforts to overcome chronic Crohn's disease, which had wasted him at 19 into an emaciated 111-pound skeleton. According to Rubin, his "healing and restoration" began when he discovered "the diet and health secrets of the world's greatest Physician."And what did the Doctor order? Surprise, surprise: Drawing from specific passages of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Maker's Diet turns out to be kosher, sprinkled with New Age-y preferences for "living" and unprocessed foods. That means no pork ("unclean," Lev. 11:7-8), no shellfish (same, Lev. 11:9-10) and no animals that "chew the cud" but do not have cloven or split hooves (yup -- horses and camels are dirty, Lev. 11:4). Sure, extremely observant Jews who subsist on boiled flunken and pray all day aren't the most vigorous looking specimens in the modern world but, hey, these are His commandments. It's all about what Jesus would eat.
They use a diet proscribed by an observant Jew to slam Jesus' followers as odd? The venomous bigotry of the author drips from every paragraph.
Why doesn't this same "journalist" take muslims to task for their dietary restriction on pork? muslims don't prohibit pork because of possible contaminated meat, they ban it because eating pig MAKES you behave like a slovenly pig:
Consumption of swine-flesh reduces the feeling of shame and as such the standard of modesty. Those nations, which consume pork habitually, have a low standard of morality with the result that virginity, chastity and bashfulness are becoming a thing of the past in Europe today.
Why single Christians out? Because it is politically correct to ridicule them in America.
The left will keep digging that anti-American, anti-Christian and anti-Jew hole.