Poor Animals
by HeyThere 51 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Heartofaboy
And how many hours would it take for that great pile of meat & blood soaked ground to start stinking to high heaven under the heat of the middle eastern sun?
It would become a danger to health in a day.
A totally ludicrous biblical account.
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Vidqun
Funny thread, this one, criticizing Biblical sacrifice. And how many animals are we killing off every day for food? Shooting it in the head or slitting its throat, not much difference there. How many are killed off by hunters? And we are supposed to be civilized? Those Biblical numbers pale into insignificance when you compare them to current trends. The ordinary Israelite, most of them farmers, knew what the word sacrifice meant, I can assure you. Those of us that grew up on a farm, also know what sacrifice means, killing off an animal that you had as a pet. Sacrifice for the rest is jumping into a car and buying lots of stuff at the supermarket, including meat. Not the same thing. So, we don't have that much to be proud of either.
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BU2B
The Mosaic Law is so stupid. Can you imagine today if someone was slaugtering animals because someone made a mistake? Even JWs would condenm this as barbaric, yet their own bloodthirsty tyrant god they claim to love says he loves the smell of blood and burning flesh. How this warms the heart.
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defender of truth
Vidqun:"..criticizing Biblical sacrifice. And how many animals are we killing off every day for food?"
Yes, for food. Not for an invisible person that enjoys the sight of people burning animal corpses in His name.
Whether we should all live on vegetables is another topic. This topic concerns excessive and needless death that was not of any practical value, or necessary to feed your family.
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Vidqun:"How many are killed off by hunters?"
Hunting can be carried out for many reasons, but I'll assume you mean illegal poaching or killing merely for sport. Many people would agree that such hunting is wrong, and unnecessary to survival.
Gods morality should be higher than such wrong actions. Why did the God of the Bible require people to kill animals, who had done nothing wrong, merely to show that they were sorry for what they had done?
If a neighbour had offended or wronged you in some way, would you expect him to kill his dog and grill it on the front lawn to show he was sorry? Or would an apology and maybe a nice card suffice? -
Vidqun
Defender, you are placing your 21st century values on people that lived thousands of years ago. Things were a bit different then. Rather not judge, and you will not be judged. As far as I know, they ate the meat. Only the fat they burnt. Not much different to what we are doing today.
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AndDontCallMeShirley
@ Vidquin: Defender, you are placing your 21st century values on people that lived thousands of years ago
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By that same logic, since it was completely acceptable to commit genocide on a massive scale back then, we should have no problem with it today either. We certainly wouldn't want to be guilty of judging genocidal maniacs today...just let them be. Right?
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Vidqun
Kill or be killed. You were surrounded by Amelikites, Hittites, Philistines, etc. who wanted you dead, raid your larder, kill your sons and take your women. That was then. Similar things are happening today. Nothing has changed. Who are we to judge them?
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Vidqun
If you live in North America, that's what your forefathers did to the Indians. If you live in South America, that's what the Spanish did to the Incas. If you live in Australia, that's what the English did to the Aborigenes. If you live in South Africa, that's what the whites did to the blacks. More recently, that's what the Nazis did to the Jews. Just the other day, that what the Hutus did to the Tutsis in Rwanda. And that is what the Israelis is doing to the Palestinians right now. In my mind, all of these should be condemned. Why single out the ancient Jews?