crass, is that you? from shwack?

Ummm... The examples you brought up may be followed by the Jews back then but they are not necessarily followed by Christians now. 

A lot of the laws from the Mosaic Old Testament has been superseded and replaced by Jesus in the New Testament. That said, yes, some Christians presently still choose to follow Old Testament guidelines though, perhaps to discover wisdom in some of those teachings.

For example, you bring up the topic of dietary laws. 

In Genesis 1, God gave Adam and Eve green plants only for food minus the fruit from the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." After the fall, God forbade them from eating from the tree of life, lest they live forever in a fallen state.

In Genesis 9, after the great flood of Noah's time, God changed the rules and said it was okay to eat meat minus blood.

We see in the OT Leviticus that the Jews forbade eating of certain food because it made someone "unclean". 

In the New Testament, Jesus ruffles the feathers  of the Jewish religious leaders and clarifies that it was not what people ate that made them unclean but what came out of their mouths that made them "unclean".

Later in the New Testament, Paul clarifies that all food is clean and that it is okay to eat food unless doing so causes another believer to stumble.

In Revelation, it states that one day in the future, people will be allowed to eat from the "Tree of Life" again.

So, as in the example of eating bacon, you have to take what you read from the Bible in context of the whole book because God and the Bible are not static and still continue in the present and the future.

The Jews and the Muslims share a common ancestor with Abraham.  The Jews trace their lineage to Abraham through Isaac (son through Sarah) while the Muslims trace their lineage to Abraham through Ishmael (son through Hagar). But there are MAJOR differences in their teachings and in their beliefs that it's not even funny. 

This difference is there at the very start where the Bible says that it was through Isaac to whom God will establish his kingdom, while Muslims say that it is through Ishmael. 

The God whom the Jews believe in (Yahweh) does not even resemble the deity that the Muslims believe in (Allah).  What Yaweh loves in the Bible, Allah in the Koran hates.  And what Allah loves in the Koran, Yahweh hates in the Bible.

The teachings in the Bible do not even look anywhere alike the teachings in the Koran.

So I do not know where you are getting your conclusions from about Abrahamic teachings and writings.  The original books in the Bible were from Moses, not Abraham.

Fair enough. I can respect your belief and your choice.

Isn't this what I said?  Freedom of religion in America is where people are allowed to follow their religious beliefs without being persecuted by the government.  If you look at the history, the pilgrims in America (mostly Protestants) were fleeing religious persecution by the various monarchs and Catholic Church of Europe. The European monarchs would adopt an official religion (Roman Catholic, Anglican, etc) and those that were not of the same belief were getting persecuted and killed by the monarchs.

Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion. Freedom of religion is freedom to practice one's religion without persecution by the government... which is what your statement seems to advocate.... persecute religious believers and automatically say that they are unfit to lead and that only secular people are fit to lead.

I'm sorry but you lost me here.  A hypothesis is something that you test in an experiment.  But to say that a theory is infallible is ridiculous.

A scientific theory is used to explain a natural phenomenon until it is proven wrong or incomplete and replaced by something better later on.

Scientific theories are what we use to make a better sense of our physical world.  Underlying in this is an understanding that theories explain a few things well but does not always explain the whole thing.

For example, Newton's theory of gravity was later replaced by Einstein's theory of relativity, because while Newton's theory helped with mathematical computations in Physics, Einstein's relativity theory explained our natural world in a deeper way. It doesn't mean we stop using the formulas based on Newton's theory of gravity. We just realize it's not as accurate an explanation as people once thought it was. 

Then you go into quantum physics and realize that we know absolutely very little of our physical world, especially in the subatomic realm. It doesn't mean the quantum theories we have are not useful... They can approximate a phenomenon but we may not really have the correct model of our world.

Religious beliefs do not have to conflict with belief in the scientific process. Many of the best scientists in our history are very religious people and believe in the almighty creator.

Remember, science deals with the "what" of our empirical world while religion deals with the "why" of our existence. When science tries to go into the "why", it is pseudoscience and gets criticism even from very well-respected scientists themselves. 

As thinking beings, we want to make sense of it all and want the "what" of science and the "why" of our beliefs to be supportive of or congruent to each other.  But realize that things in the "why" realm cannot be proven using the scientific method because it is impossible to conduct our human existence and history as an experiment.  Besides, it doesn't make sense.

You know, evolution is a theory but you'd have to consider that perhaps things did not come about as random as the theory of evolution makes it appear to be.

This example may sound a bit absurd but please bear with me for a minute.... Let's say you were born way into the future an somehow, you dug up several skeletons of pickup trucks, station wagons and full sized cars.  You could say, "oh yeah... Over a billion of years, because I see some variations in the skeleton structure, I believe that the truck evolved from the station wagon which evolved from the car. All of them are 4 wheeled creatures and they share very similar characteristics. It's very possible that they just mutated on their own over the millions and billions of years!"

But see... you forget that it's very possible that the car had an original designer.... Henry Ford. Where is your evidence of Henry Ford? You won't have it but it doesn't mean he's not real.

It is the same with our world.  Perhaps the commonality that you see in a monkey and a man did not come about because of evolution but because both monkey and man had the same architect / designer. 

Oh very many... Some Christian leaders included unfortunately. And Secularist leaders do it too, you know.  So what exactly makes secularist politicians so special?

Yes, Jesus was pointing out the hearts of the poor widow vs the rich man.  Very profound lesson.  Jesus was very much against the hypocrisy of the self-righteous religious leaders of that time. 

Eating 3-day old rotten food is probably not good for you. The book of Leviticus did write a lot about what made people "unclean".  A lot of it had to do with the Levites who were the priests and had to be sure they were "clean" when approaching God who is holy. . 

And God designed man to be together with  woman, not man with man, nor woman with woman.  That's why they called same sex an abomination to God and his intended purpose.

Christians are not perfect people. No one is perfect except God. In fact many Christians led pretty messed up lives but later found salvation, forgiveness and redemption in Christ.

Thanks!  Have a great week ahead!