Why does God like animal sacrifices? [Archive]

JuniperWoolf

09-10-2011, 04:30 AM

It's an ancient custom, obviously. Bulls were sacred to Zeus, so the Greeks used to throw the bones on a brazier and ate the meat themselves.

What's with the copious anti-religious threads?

osho

10-01-2011, 01:07 PM

Is He thirsty for blood? Is He a monster?

Wilson, you are misled. God is not something you think God is. The God you are probably referring to is the one we have imagined based on what we have read in books of scriptures or hear from the mouths of our elders or seniors or the intellectuals in whose words we trust unreservedly.

You have to qualify for such arguments and give your mature ideas, not such childish

Mutatis-Mutandis

10-01-2011, 01:31 PM

He's banned, osho.

Griffith

10-02-2011, 10:54 PM

God doesn't like animal sacrifices and God doesn't like subhumans who do that. Is this a serious question or you are an aleatory fool repeating like a parrot a materialistic world view?

osho

10-03-2011, 10:57 AM

cafolini

10-03-2011, 11:27 AM

Is He thirsty for blood? Is He a monster?

Now, I said many times that I know of no god. But it seems that god, invented as the creator of everything, has to like anything. Have fun. Don't act so surprised before BS. It's perfectly consistent.

blazeofglory

10-03-2011, 11:58 AM

I second Osho's opinion. In fact God is neutral. God is not a person the way we are to consume. In God's name humans become consumers.

cafolini

10-03-2011, 02:49 PM

Something purely existential, without occurrence other than in the two dimensions of the imagination, and absolutely consistent within the expression of its context, is not necessarily true. A note for asses!

cl154576

10-03-2011, 05:19 PM

God doesn't like animal sacrifices and God doesn't like subhumans who do that. Is this a serious question or you are an aleatory fool repeating like a parrot a materialistic world view?

There's some validity in what G L Wilson said, the Bible after all does devote a whole book to explaining different types of animal sacrifices and their purposes. I know that this could be largely due to the writers' cultural traditions, but G L's first question is not entirely nonsense.

Darcy88

10-03-2011, 05:23 PM

There's some validity in what G L Wilson said, the Bible after all does devote a whole book to explaining different types of animal sacrifices and their purposes. I know that this could be largely due to the writers' cultural traditions, but G L's first question is not entirely nonsense.

Indeed, the Bible places a heavy emphasis on animal sacrifice. It raises the question why contemporary Christian and Jewish fundamentalists aren't out there slaying animals in accordance with their God's clearly stated wishes.

Griffith

10-04-2011, 09:10 AM

Bible describes animal sacrifices it doesn't supports. Atheists trying to find arguments against faith is pitiful.

osho

10-04-2011, 10:50 AM

Theunderground

10-04-2011, 11:37 AM

I have no need of god the father,the son or the idea..

cafolini

10-04-2011, 11:40 AM

I call both faithhoders and nonfaithholders trash. The reason is they simply antagonizing each other rather than coming with something concrete. You cannot concretely say anything about God' s nature. God is in our belief not in heaven. It is a very subtle issue and you cannot say exactly what it is.

Theists are blind followers of faith and atheists are antagonists and kind of fanatics. I want to transcend their thought processes and want to go above and beyond their realms of thoughts.

My dear, I don't disagree. Put the entangling peacemaker and sustainer of BS in that bag also. The agnostic is part of the three-stooge team.

One more thing for you. You don't need to transcend. You must realize that what you need is to descend to earth from the few glorious heights you got infected with as a child. That's all there is to it.

osho

10-04-2011, 11:46 AM

My dear, I don't disagree. Put the entangling peacemaker and sustainer of BS in that bag also. The agnostic is part of the three-stooge team.

One more thing for you. You don't need to transcend. You must realize that what you need is to descend to earth from the few glorious heights you got infected with as a child. That's all there is to it.

Never have anything has enlightened me more! I really like your thought and of course I too have to descend from this illusory height. You are absolutely, I say absolutely my friend, right I was disillusioned at that glorious height and the gripe of that was so intense and strong on the making of my personality and thought that I am always in vain trying to clear myself out of that entangling hedge

cafolini

10-04-2011, 01:16 PM

Never have anything has enlightened me more! I really like your thought and of course I too have to descend from this illusory height. You are absolutely, I say absolutely my friend, right I was disillusioned at that glorious height and the gripe of that was so intense and strong on the making of my personality and thought that I am always in vain trying to clear myself out of that entangling hedge

Imagine~ http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/john_lennon/imagine.html

Griffith

10-04-2011, 01:18 PM

I call both faithhoders and nonfaithholders trash. The reason is they simply antagonizing each other rather than coming with something concrete. You cannot concretely say anything about God' s nature. God is in our belief not in heaven. It is a very subtle issue and you cannot say exactly what it is.

Theists are blind followers of faith and atheists are antagonists and kind of fanatics. I want to transcend their thought processes and want to go above and beyond their realms of thoughts.
The greatest men ever were christian. Don't be a degenerate.
Newton -- > Best scientist ever checked
Dostoievky --> Best writer ever checked.
Adolf Hitler --> Greatest political leader ever checked.
Ludwig van Beethoven --> Best composer ever checked.
Leonardo da Vinci --> The greatest versatile genius ever checked.

Osho you are a microbe compared with these guys. Who is "trash" now?
Before the mod appears again, just see who started the fight. :yesnod:

cafolini

10-04-2011, 01:38 PM

The greatest men ever were christian. Don't be a degenerate.
Newton -- > Best scientist ever checked
Dostoievky --> Best writer ever checked.
Adolf Hitler --> Greatest political leader ever checked.
Ludwig van Beethoven --> Best composer ever checked.
Leonardo da Vinci --> The greatest versatile genius ever checked.

Osho you are a microbe compared with these guys. Who is "trash" now?
Before the mod appears again, just see who started the fight. :yesnod:

You are narrowminded. You mention a few among millions and declare them the greatest. And you are simply a prick mixing insane Adolf with the others. But in the land of the free and the home of the brave you have the right to your opinion just as anyone else. Have fun.

Griffith

10-04-2011, 02:18 PM

You are narrowminded. You mention a few among millions and declare them the greatest. And you are simply a prick mixing insane Adolf with the others. But in the land of the free and the home of the brave you have the right to your opinion just as anyone else. Have fun.

Newton:
http://listverse.com/2009/02/24/top-10-most-influential-scientists/
http://www.pollsb.com/polls/p10134-greatest_scientist_ever
http://www.konig.org/wc234.htm
http://www.rankopedia.com/Greatest-Scientist-Ever?/Step1/25181/.htm
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/17293

:brow::brow::brow:

What do you think about it?. Experts around the world agree with me and your post is pure relativistic garbage. "Well who said that sir Isaac Newton was the best? A beggar can be more intelligent than him in many ways." :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Drkshadow03

10-04-2011, 06:37 PM

You are narrowminded. You mention a few among millions and declare them the greatest. And you are simply a prick mixing insane Adolf with the others. But in the land of the free and the home of the brave you have the right to your opinion just as anyone else. Have fun.

Shhh, you're going to confuse him and make his head explode. Next you're going to tell him Jesus was Jewish! Or that the second most important scientist on one of his polls was a Jew too. :crazy:

Not to mention he doesn't know the difference between an opinion and a fact. For example, Beethoven equals the best composer? Why not Bach? Or Mozart? I've seen lists where they stand on top and a good case could be made for them.

Dostoievski is the best writer? Hardly any literary critic I know would agree with that.

I thought our friendly resident Neo-Nazi was banned, but I guess the moderators had a change of heart?

Silas Thorne

10-04-2011, 07:11 PM

Changing the topic, doesn't 'hecatomb' just sound cool? Of course, it is perfectly awful, slaughtering all these animals to fertilise the earth with blood, but the word, wow!

cafolini

10-04-2011, 07:21 PM

Shhh, you're going to confuse him and make his head explode. Next you're going to tell him Jesus was Jewish! Or that the second most important scientist on one of his polls was a Jew too. :crazy:

Not to mention he doesn't know the difference between an opinion and a fact. For example, Beethoven equals the best composer? Why not Bach? Or Mozart? I've seen lists where they stand on top and a good case could be made for them.

Dostoievski is the best writer? Hardly any literary critic I know would agree with that.

I thought our friendly resident Neo-Nazi was banned, but I guess the moderators had a change of heart?

I agree he's despicable, but I don't think this people should be banned because they are a part of history on the make, and they have the right to speak a-priory. We need to know where they are at and what they are thinking. Even as jokers or pricksters. Freedom of speech is one of the most important aspects of freedom.

mazHur

10-04-2011, 07:36 PM

There is a lot of monstrosity in your writing toward God. God is not something to be blamed. Why God needs animal sacrifices. It is you people, your attitude toward God is monstrous. God is an ideal of something, our highest idea or dream or our highest state and nothing else.

Your accusation is baseless. I do not second your opinion. This is a totally preoccupied idea.

I agree with Osho. God is not something to be played upon.

Animal sacrifice is a religious duty in some religions and I do not see anything wrong in it. Antagonist of animal sacrifice should note that any religion did not allow human sacrifice as religious duty otherwise men would be eating men!!
Animal sacrifice is a gesture of goodwill towards God's blessings, a thank you, a sign that one would be ready to 'sacrifice' his material wealth for the welfare of the humanity!! Animal sacrifice tends to promote ''sympathy' in sacrificial worldly matters.

May I ask the poster why people 'sacrifice' much of their time in futile debates over God????

cl154576

10-04-2011, 07:46 PM

Animal sacrifice is a gesture of goodwill towards God's blessings, a thank you, a sign that one would be ready to 'sacrifice' his material wealth for the welfare of the humanity!! Animal sacrifice tends to promote ''sympathy' in sacrificial worldly matters.

I don't want to argue with you, only can you explain this in greater depth? I am curious about it.

Sionn Harrow

10-04-2011, 08:04 PM

The Biblical perspective asserts that God is perfect in all things. It states that He is just, and therefore cannot tolerate sin. Sin, according to the shorter catechism, is disobeying or not doing God's law in any way. All of humanity is guilty of sin. Because of God's perfection, He cannot ignore sin. There must be a recompense. If he tolerated it, or let it go, that would be a violation of his character. But because He is merciful, He provided people with animal sacrifices. The purpose of an animal sacrifice was for the animal to take the punishment for the human's sins. Because there were no perfect animal sacrifices, people had to make them regularly to pay for their sins.
The reason Christians no longer perform animal sacrifices is because God gave His son as the ultimate, perfect sacrifice. That sacrifice was enough to atone for all the sins in the world, which is why animal sacrifices are no longer necessary. Animal sacrifices ceased among Christians after the death of Christ, the son of God.

JuniperWoolf

10-04-2011, 10:14 PM

Adolf Hitler --> Greatest political leader ever checked

I think you need to re-evaluate your ideas on what makes someone "great." That, and read up on Augustus Caesar (my favorite world leader, who had a fantastic mind and a way greater influence the modern world than that crybaby psychopath Hitler).

Also... the greatest "ever checked?" What does that even mean?

I call both faithhoders and nonfaithholders trash.

Well, aren't you just above it all, and impervious in your golden bubble of transcendant self-righteousness. *sarcasm*

I thought our friendly resident Neo-Nazi was banned, but I guess the moderators had a change of heart?

Damn, you're right, it is him. I was so happy when that guy was banned. Well, this is just perfect. :banghead: