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Prime Rib of Jesus

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, August 22 2008, 20:03:38 (CEST)
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In gratitude to the gods for their bounty, animals were “sacrificed” in the old days...either animals from the hunt or, after primitive man learned to domesticate them, from his herd, barnyard or from vendors. It’s not like the animal was simply thrown away on an altar....burned and left to rot. Everyone knew they were going to feast anyway...so why not make a little ritual where you “offered” a part to the gods and made kebobs with the rest, which you would have done anyway? Interestingly it was claimed that the gods preferred the fat, the smelly , less desirable cuts. No one was going to waste prime rib or sirloin on a god. A slaughtered animal had to have the blood drained from it or else the meat would spoil, so the ritual included pouring the blood over the fire as well...made for a good show and got rid of the stuff....who wants to wade in the blood of animal after animal as you approach the “holy of holies”?

When the Hebrews took animals to their temple for sacrifice, they may as well have gone to a butcher shoppe with a priest behind the counter...which in a way is exactly what a kosher butcher is...or rather he has a rabbi close at hand, an assistant, to bless the meat. The “burnt offerings” may have been wasted on the altar, but the good meat certainly wasn’t....either the temple workers ate it up, or the customer took the best part back home with him for dinner. No one could afford to slaughter a perfectly good lamb or goat and simply waste it in “sacrifice”. Meat was scarce and expensive...and the Hebrews had a hard enough time keeping any food on the table without burning up their herds.

Who would burn his expensive and scare animal, leave the meat behind to go home to a dinner of weeds and dry bread? Meat was the best part of any meal and something rare, special and very dear.

A pagan or Hebrew, on his way home at the end of the day, would stop by the stalls to select a pigeon or two or, if he was having the family over, a tender lamb or goat. He’d pick up some vegetables at the next stall...maybe some bread and cheese and then he’d head up the steps to the temple where, for a small fee, the animal would be killed and the proper “sacrifice” offered to his god and a portion left behind for the rabbis and whoever cleaned up the mess at the end of the day. Then he’d take his pigeon or lamb home, drained and ready for his wife to cook up. It was a clever thought, making the preparation of a meal a “ritual” of his religion as well. In truth there was really no “sacrifice” at all. It would have been if he’d burned up or left behind the entire carcass...but it was a symbolic sacrifice, showing his appreciation to the gods and a way to put a little food on the table of the temple staff...no harm done.

Assyrian kings did it too where lions and other animals of the hunt were concerned....they’d even pour wine over the meat to marinate it a bit...probably spices too...lion kebob would certainly be a food fit for the gods. But no one in the ancient world, at that time at least, thought to make a human sacrifice and eat it. No one but Christians. And no one there thought to drink the blood of a sacrificed animal, as a regular thing...that was a little too weird.

Early Christians, who were all Jews anyway, were roundly disliked by the pagan world...no matter what their pamphlets say today. They were felt to have no civic spirit, no interest in defending the city-state...all their energies and thoughts were focused on the end of the world, not fixing potholes and sweeping the town square. Wishing to distinguish themselves from their neighbors they adopted and significantly modified animal sacrifice, which was a common feature of Judaism and pagan religion...only they decided to “sacrifice”, and eat and drink a human bean...their “lord”, Jesus Christ...”it’s okay, he WANTS us to!”.

Pagans and Jews didn’t wax poetic over a goat’s blood but Christians positively glowed at descriptions of Christ’s blood being “shed”...they gloried in visions of his heart, bloody and exposed...the way a normal savage would feel about the internal organs of a cow, which were considered the best parts to eat. Where Pagans and Jews made a religious ritual out of carving up meat for lunch, Christians went one better and ate their lord...a human.

Imagine Jews eating Moses....or Muslims chowing down on Muhammad...pretty disgusting, no?

That it took 1500 years for Minime to become ashamed of this bloody ritual doesn’t change history....and born-agains, if they don’t take the Eucharist seriously still get ecstatic over the blood of the human sacrifice.....not even Pagans or Jews “washed” in the blood of the animals they ate...blood was something corrupting...it spoiled the meat. Born Agains take a self-righteous satisfaction in spurning the Eucharist...only they replaced dining on their Lord with washing in his blood. Either way the poor man had to be murdered...and his blood drained out, “for us”.

Some improvement.

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