God Says: Wash Up After Wet Dreams!

[Warlock]

Sacrificing animals hmmm? Some witches do that (not most of them), did "god" not say he forbids witchcraft or anything to do with it?

[MyAntiDrugIsAmy]

not the way you're trying to make it seem. everything has to be closely related, especially with religion because religion is a different culture or groups way of making sense of things in the world, including paranormal, and guidelines/values for however they see a fulfilled life.

a majority of judeo-christian traditions are derived from pagan traditions because of the culture of society at the time.

[Warlock]

Ah right, so it's wrong for other religions & right for it's own?
That's all it boils down to really.

[MyAntiDrugIsAmy]

i didn't say anything about any religion's traditions and rituals being wrong. what i was saying was that it doesn't really matter arguing about that because of different elements being repeated in different religions... calm down and don't act so belligerent

[ermitonto]

Well I think it is something worth arguing about, since a lot of Christians don't even know the Bible wants them to sacrifice animals, and actually think that sacrificing animals is Satanic or whatever. These people ought to at least know that their holy book promotes something they view as very unholy. And besides, it would be a really easy argument to win.

[Warlock]

Well I think it is something worth arguing about, since a lot of Christians don't even know the Bible wants them to sacrifice animals, and actually think that sacrificing animals is Satanic or whatever. These people ought to at least know that their holy book promotes something they view as very unholy. And besides, it would be a really easy argument to win.

Yeah, a lot of them think it's satanic, but one of the rules in The Satanic bible cleary states "Do not kill an animal unless attacked or for food".

[slipknotpsycho]

me and my wife have a paperback copy of the satanic bible (we were intrested to see what kind of stuff it said, we dont' actually worship satan.) and actually it makes alot more sense than the bible. one of the main things i liked, was about sex and went something like this:
1. must be consentual
2. can't violate vows of a marraige
3. both are of a reasonable age
(these aren't the exact words, been along time since i read it and i don't have it handy or i'd type it word for word, but it gives you the basic idea)

so basicly
any sexual contact is fine, as long as it doesn't break the vows of marriage (so no sex outside of the marriage) as long as it's consentual, meaning not raping ect ect...(which would also mean if all three parties of a 3-some are consenting it's ok, or you may have sex with the same sex as long as both are consenting and so on) all people involved are of reasonable age (take this part how you want but in my eyes it basicly says, you can't do anything with kids)

now don't go jumpin on my ass saying "the devil played off your sinning nature to trick you into being with him" or "that book was written by an insane man" or anything of the like. i don't believe in either, and quite honestly both books were written by men, just at diffrent times.

[Warlock]

Ignore this post

[MyAntiDrugIsAmy]

Well I think it is something worth arguing about, since a lot of Christians don't even know the Bible wants them to sacrifice animals, and actually think that sacrificing animals is Satanic or whatever. These people ought to at least know that their holy book promotes something they view as very unholy. And besides, it would be a really easy argument to win.

they know that the bible says stuff about sacrificing animals. that stuff was in the old testament which documented the rituals and practices of the jews. christians don't practice animal sacrifice because they believe that jesus was the "ultimate sacrifice" and he said "through me you can go to heaven" so they believe that since jesus came, they don't have to go through all the same rituals and many of the laws of the old testament. although a lot of the churches don't see that they still focus on certain laws in the old testament that really don't pertain to our society and it's merely out of date. society obviously won't follow the same pattern it once did 2000 + years ago when the jews practiced these rituals.

[ermitonto]

Hmm, interesting rationalization. I wonder how they rationalize the whole bit about God encouraging slavery.