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To: mcg1969
"Trophies of dead life on walls? Sounds like a perfect description of many crucifixes."

That was really weird.....and twisted.

Animal Trophies on the wall are what I was referring to, Vern.

Try and keep score.

Silly, twisted and completely sad and unnecessary.

265 posted on 11/27/2005 9:59:46 PM PST by FranklySpeaking ("Hell, there are no rules here; we're trying to accomplish something" ~Thomas Edison)
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To: FranklySpeaking
On the contrary, Vern, it is this very thread that you have started that is silly, sad, and unnecessary.

The bottom line is that Jesus, by his words and deeds, endorsed the sacrifical system. This means, of course, that he endorsed the wholesale killing of innocent, relatively helpless animals, and the systematic draining of their blood and separation of their organs, and ultimately the burning of much of same. How can you claim that this practice is any more, uh, pleasant than a kill from a hunt? What, do you think the priests sang sweet songs into their ears as the knife was inserted? Gave them a last smoke and a drink of wine first?

And what was the animals' crime, that that they would be subject to such cruelty? Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and nothing more. Which was the point: they did nothing to deserve the fate to which they were consigned; it was because of the sins of God-fearing people that they were slaughtered.

And Jesus apparently supported that practice, since he himself became such a sacrifice.

Now I'm not saying that Jesus would approve of trophy hunting. But nor am I saying he would condemn it; because, unlike you, I dare not speak where the Bible is silent. Your attempt to provide Scriptural support was feeble at best, including your incredibly strained attempt to invoke the Holy Trinity to claim that Jesus said Psalm 50.

All I'm saying is that Jesus was not nearly as limpwristed as you might like him to be. He was one tough fellow.

266 posted on 11/27/2005 10:20:47 PM PST by mcg1969
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