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  2. Religious views on smoking - Wikipedia

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    The idea of smoking tobacco has been looked down upon in modern Zoroastrian communities due to the scientific knowledge of it causing harm to the body. This stance on smoking does not have a direct relation to the texts of the Avestas and is not stated in the religion, rather the religion teaches to not misuse fire as it is holy. Zoroastrianism ...

  3. Matthew 12:20 - Wikipedia

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    Jerome: "Or, the reverse, He calls the Jews a bruised reed, whom tossed by the wind and shaken from one another, the Lord did not immediately condemn, but patiently endured; and the smoking flax He calls the people gathered out of the Gentiles, who, having extinguished the light of the natural law, were involved in the wandering mazes of thick ...

  4. Smoking in Jewish law - Wikipedia

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    Benveniste expressed himself very forcibly against smoking tutun (tobacco) on Tisha BeAv, and reportedly excommunicated a Jew who smoked on that solemn fast-day. [5] Benveniste pointed out the inconsistency of those authorities who permit smoking on holidays because it is a 'necessity,' a 'means of sustaining life,' and who allow it on fast ...

  5. Religion and drugs - Wikipedia

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    Many denominations permit the moderate use of socially and legally acceptable drugs like alcohol, caffeine and tobacco. Some Christian denominations permit smoking tobacco, while others disapprove of it. Many orthodox or protestant denominations do not have any official stance on drug use, while other Christian denominations (e.g.

  6. Christian views on alcohol - Wikipedia

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    Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th-century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of Church history, Christians generally consumed alcoholic beverages as a common part of everyday life and used "the fruit of the vine" [1] in their central rite—the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.

  7. Cannabis and Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The primary advocate of a religious use of cannabis plant in early Judaism was Sula Benet (1936), who claimed that the plant keneh bosem קְנֵה-בֹשֶׂם mentioned five times in the Hebrew Bible, and used in the holy anointing oil of the Book of Exodus, was in fact cannabis, [4] although lexicons of Hebrew and dictionaries of plants of ...

  8. A Counterblaste to Tobacco - Wikipedia

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    James's dislike of tobacco led him in 1604 [3] to authorise Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, to levy an excise tax and tariff of six shillings and eight pence per pound of tobacco imported, [4] or £1 per three pounds, a large sum of money for the time. This would be £90 per pound in 2024, or £198 per kilogramme.

  9. The Bible and slavery - Wikipedia

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    11th-century manuscript of the Hebrew Bible with Targum, Exodus 12:25–31 The Franks Casket is an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon whalebone casket, the back of which depicts the enslavement of the Jewish people at the lower right. The Bible contains many references to slavery, which was a common practice in antiquity.