Before the fall of the Roman empire, Leviticus was written in the Bible as a form of public health laws. Cleanliness and hygiene were important. Though, during the Middle Ages, Christianity had changed to an extent that "personal hygiene was not practiced, and as a consequence, an entirely different attitude toward the human body developed. Excessive care of the body, that is, man's earthly and mutable part, was unimportant in the Christian dualistic concept, which separated body from soul. For some Eastern churchman and holy men, living in filth was regarded as evidence of sanctity; cleanliness was thought to betoken pride, and filthiness humility."
And we wonder why people take the Bible as they want to. Why everyone seems to follow their own path. Nothing is clear.
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