{"id":3194,"date":"2011-10-20T23:12:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T06:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/10\/why-god-loves-bearded-men-over-bald-faced-men\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T06:30:12","slug":"why-god-loves-bearded-men-over-bald-faced-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/20\/why-god-loves-bearded-men-over-bald-faced-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Why God Loves Bearded Men Over Bald-faced Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Why Does God Love Beards?<\/h1>\n

A discussion of facial hair in world religions.<\/em><\/p>\n

By\u00a0Brian Palmer<\/a>|<\/span>Posted Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at 5:35 PM ET<\/span><\/p>\n

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An Amish splinter group has gone on a crime spree, forcibly\u00a0cutting the beards<\/a>\u00a0off of their rivals. Many religions, including Sikhism, Islam, and sects of Judaism, encourage or require their men to keep beards. Jesus Christ is often depicted with a beard. Why does God like facial hair so much?<\/p>\n

Because it\u2019s manly. Although beards appear repeatedly in religious texts, God never explicitly tells us why they\u2019re so holy. In the absence of any divine exposition, many theologians have posited that a hairy face is a symbol of masculinity bestowed upon men by God. St. Clement of Alexandria, who was among the most emphatic proponents of this view, argued: \u201cBut for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, to arrange his hair at the looking-glass, to shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them, how womanly! And, in truth,\u00a0unless you saw them naked, you would suppose them to be women<\/a>.\u201d St. Augustine seconded Clement\u2019s characterization, noting, \u201cThe beard signifies the courageous;\u00a0the beard distinguishes the grown men<\/a>, the earnest, the active, the vigorous. So that when we describe such, we say, he is a bearded man.\u201d<\/p>\n

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