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Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 12:24 am
What is with the jewish/christian fascination with bodily fluids? A google search shows that it is mentioned about 415 times in the bible. Christians are pushed to drink blood colored liquids to remind them of christ's blood, not his image, not his teachings and not his bones.
We know all about blood today. We know it sucks as a cleaning agent and won't wash shit. It works best ferrying oxygen, metabolites, and wastes to the body, no magic involved.
Why were sacrificial rites filled with blood directives?
Why does the god of the old testament think like a bronze age cave man? I wonder???
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 1:41 am
Well coming from the same people who drink camel's blood even still to this day its no wonder why they say drink the saviors blood. Bleh....
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 11:53 am
I see you are a cult leader of Alice. You don't have to drink Alice's blood do you?
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 11:58 am
We do not drink of the blood. We drink of the alcohol and play board games and strip poker. 
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 1:30 pm
(Just speaking for myself)
I'm comforted knowing that even now, over 35 years later, there would still be some atoms incorporated in my being that were once in Doyle Duane, and I am equally discomforted knowing I do not share that commonality with Brian.
Granted my experience with these men is not religious, but rather emotional, but while they are both frequently in my thoughts, it is somewhat distressing to me that not even a particle of Brian continues on in me the way it does with Duane.
For folks sincerely religious, I'd posit they have a religiously similar experience with their supposed smoke and mirror transubstantiation with Jesus. I'd say my experience with Duane is a little more real, if I wanted to, with just a few assumptions and a little session with a pocket calculator I could make an estimate of how many atoms of Duane are still extant in myself.
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 1:46 pm
(April 4, 2015 at 12:24 am)Brakeman Wrote: What is with the jewish/christian fascination with bodily fluids? A google search shows that it is mentioned about 415 times in the bible. Christians are pushed to drink blood colored liquids to remind them of christ's blood, not his image, not his teachings and not his bones.
We know all about blood today. We know it sucks as a cleaning agent and won't wash shit. It works best ferrying oxygen, metabolites, and wastes to the body, no magic involved.
Why were sacrificial rites filled with blood directives?
Why does the god of the old testament think like a bronze age cave man? I wonder???
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I think it is safe to say that the people who wrote the Bible knew that blood sucked as a cleaning agent. All it would take is trying it one time and one would learn pretty fast that it does not gets one's clothes clean.
It has to do with ancient animal (and human) sacrifice. What we have are traces of older practices and beliefs imbedded in "modern" Christianity. Of course, in the Bible, there are the actual animal sacrifices, as parts of it are very old and go back to an era in which such things were commonly practiced.
Maybe someone with a better background in history can say more, but I don't think we really understand the origins of the practice, as it seems to go back into prehistory. It seems to be pretty universal, to all places of the world in which ancient people lived. So this isn't just a Judeo-Christian thing. It is found in Hinduism and many, many other ancient traditions.
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 1:47 pm
(April 4, 2015 at 1:30 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: (Just speaking for myself)
I'm comforted knowing that even now, over 35 years later, there would still be some atoms incorporated in my being that were once in Doyle Duane, and I am equally discomforted knowing I do not share that commonality with Brian.
Granted my experience with these men is not religious, but rather emotional, but while they are both frequently in my thoughts, it is somewhat distressing to me that not even a particle of Brian continues on in me the way it does with Duane.
For folks sincerely religious, I'd posit they have a religiously similar experience with their supposed smoke and mirror transubstantiation with Jesus. I'd say my experience with Duane is a little more real, if I wanted to, with just a few assumptions and a little session with a pocket calculator I could make an estimate of how many atoms of Duane are still extant in myself.
Death doesn't bother me i'll be around.
Just the atoms and molecules of my mind would disperse and be floating around somewhere. 
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Why would a god be pleased with men senselessly killing other creatures?
What would be the pleasing feature of dribbling blood over a hearth that would be important to a god?
Why don't christians drink jesus' piss in remembrance of him? It could open up white wine sales for the catlicks and Mountain Dew for the baptists!
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 4:05 pm
(April 4, 2015 at 4:00 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Why would a god be pleased with men senselessly killing other creatures?
What would be the pleasing feature of dribbling blood over a hearth that would be important to a god?
Why don't christians drink jesus' piss in remembrance of him? It could open up white wine sales for the catlicks and Mountain Dew for the baptists!
Blood has been associated with life. (Think about the word "lifeblood.") Urine isn't associated with life. Draining the blood out of a person kills him, thus depriving him of life. Draining the urine out of a person does not kill him, and thus does not deprive him of live. So it isn't random.
Now, I have a question for you. Are you being serious in these questions, or are you just joking around?
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RE: Why is christianity a "Blood Cult"
April 4, 2015 at 4:34 pm
(April 4, 2015 at 1:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (April 4, 2015 at 12:24 am)Brakeman Wrote: What is with the jewish/christian fascination with bodily fluids? A google search shows that it is mentioned about 415 times in the bible. Christians are pushed to drink blood colored liquids to remind them of christ's blood, not his image, not his teachings and not his bones.
We know all about blood today. We know it sucks as a cleaning agent and won't wash shit. It works best ferrying oxygen, metabolites, and wastes to the body, no magic involved.
Why were sacrificial rites filled with blood directives?
Why does the god of the old testament think like a bronze age cave man? I wonder???
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I think it is safe to say that the people who wrote the Bible knew that blood sucked as a cleaning agent. All it would take is trying it one time and one would learn pretty fast that it does not gets one's clothes clean.
It has to do with ancient animal (and human) sacrifice. What we have are traces of older practices and beliefs imbedded in "modern" Christianity. Of course, in the Bible, there are the actual animal sacrifices, as parts of it are very old and go back to an era in which such things were commonly practiced.
Maybe someone with a better background in history can say more, but I don't think we really understand the origins of the practice, as it seems to go back into prehistory. It seems to be pretty universal, to all places of the world in which ancient people lived. So this isn't just a Judeo-Christian thing. It is found in Hinduism and many, many other ancient traditions. Many ancients sacrificed human beings who belonged as property to the deceased master so that they could continue to serve him in the afterlife. How it came to be associated with appeasing the gods probably has something to do with the idea that people can be possessed by evil spirits, and/or the growth of crops from the earth, which was itself believed to be a deity. If cow shit isn't making my fields grow this year, maybe giving my first-born to the earth will!
That would be my guess anyway.
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