Kenneth McKendrick

And so it's kind of a slippery slope in many respects.

I have to call you out on it.

You said a person that's trying to.

You said a person that's trying to.

That's the modern idea.

Evil is associated with your will.

The ritual understanding, or evil as impurity, it's not about your intention.

You can intend harm, or you can intend love, or wonder, or whatever.

It doesn't matter what you intend.

It's contact that determines the impurity.

If you touch a corpse or if you come into contact with blood, if you come into contact with a forbidden material, like what's prohibited, then you carry that with you because it transfers that chaos, that disorder, that dirt or whatever, that impurity transfers over to you.

It doesn't matter what you intend.

So it's not someone that's trying to undermine sacred rules.

It's that they have come into contact with chaos.

And now you can't tolerate them unless they become ritually pure.

And so they're just dangerous.

They're a threat to themselves.

They're a threat to the community.

And they're a threat to the cosmos.

The danger of impurity is precisely that.