In another thread I was talking about the dietary prejudices I grew up. I grew up Seventh-day Adventist and we as a group tend not to eat meat, and if we do we don't eat the "unclean meats" as set forth in some verses in the New Testament (also in the OT I think, because we share these prejudices with the Jews, but without the other restrictions they have).

This means no pork, no catfish/shrimp/lobster/several other seafoods, and a few other meats.

I'm an atheist now (and sooo happy, once I accepted that I was on, and had been one for a very long time, I finally felt that peace that every Christian claims to have had once they accepted God), but I can't shake these prejudices.

I eat some pork (the breakfast meats, but I ate those when I was growing up), but I won't eat ham unless I have to (I was in a mental hospital for a week, and the lunch was ham, greens, and cornbread. You had to make arrangements a meal in advance for something else. I ate the ham). I don't eat any sort of seafood, even the "clean" stuff (we never had fish growing up at all, and I'm not adventurous enough to try it.

Saturday was our holy day, from Sundown Friday night until sundown Saturday night we're to keep the day holy (that's subject to interpretation, in some things) and generally we don't do much more than go to church. A lot of us go hiking after church, or other physical activities, except for swimming (not allowed at all). Naps are frequent, and bible study is encouraged. Shopping and eating out are frowned upon, as they are "worldly things". I still have a hard time doing some "worldly things" on Saturday, partly because my husband is SDA still, but partly because it still feels blasphemous.

Does anyone else have these hangups? I know they are stupid. They are artificial things created by the brainwashing I endured growing up (and I grew up in a very very liberal SDA home!), and I have no reason to feel this way, but I just can't quite shake these feelings.