RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?
November 30, 2017 at 12:05 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2017 at 12:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 30, 2017 at 12:01 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I always get a kick out of how the penance for having your period was that you sacrifice two pigeons to God. Maybe that was God's way of managing the burgeoning pigeon population......
Or maybe the blood had made him mildly peckish? King of the Lamiae, we already established in another thread that he has an aversion to sunlight.
In seriousness, though, OT God trips all over it's own dick with disjunct myths cobbled together, as any large work of it's kind would...the varying origins of the stories having been lost even to the narrators. That god cursed women to menstruate in the first place - that this -was- their penance and sacrificial redemption for having made themselves unclean- was likely not a story known to the originating culture from which that little gem was sourced. The first five don't seem to share a common pedigree, and even internally some portions of a single book in the first five present themselves as disparate composite constructions.
The "priestly material", so far as we can tell..was a social contract and compromise between different societal trends and expectations which would be converged into a loosely unified whole after a great deal of cultural contamination. This is why so much of leviticus comes out of left field.
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