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"Budikka666" |
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05 Feb 2006 03:20:38 PM |
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Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
Muslims do it to animals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4185337.stm
Judaists do it to their own sons:
(Genesis 22:9)
Hindus do it to coconuts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm
Get your minds out of the gutter - I'm talking about sacrifice.
"How does a temple in India make sure that it gets 15,000 coconuts a
day delivered for its rituals? It simply depends on the faith of its
thousands of Hindu devotees who run a unique voluntary courier service
to faithfully deliver the fruit every day without fail. This is the
thousands of coconuts, which can total more than 100,000 on festival
days - reach the famous Maa Tarini temple in the eastern Indian state
of Orissa every day."
Seriously, do gods *really* demand sacrifices of trivial items? Do
they really demand you kill something for them (and burn it?!)? It
seems that all of the major religions insist that this is true, but not
one of them asks if it makes any sense.
The god(s) purportedly created everything from nothing. If this were
true, then everything - literally everything in existence - belongs to
the god(s) - is part of the god(s) - is mundane to the god(s).
Does it make any sense at all that any of these gods would somehow be
pleased or placated or appeased or encouraged or induced by an
insignificant part of his creation pillaging and/or destroying another
insignificant part and presenting what the god already owns back to the
god?!
Doesn't it make more sense that a truly creative/creator god, assuming
it wasn't an evil god, would be far more impressed by creativity? Yet
nowhere in these stories do we read of *that* being rewarded. We don't
hear of kindness being an acceptable "sacrifice", or of creativity
placating a god, or of ingenuity or gentility being acceptable in
assuaging or inducing goodwill in a god.
Maybe that's why there is no god.
Budikka
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
05 Feb 2006 09:40:58 PM |
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On 5 Feb 2006 13:20:38 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
- Refer: <1139174438.609622.94740@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
Muslims do it to animals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4185337.stm
Judaists do it to their own sons:
(Genesis 22:9)
Hindus do it to coconuts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm
Get your minds out of the gutter - I'm talking about sacrifice.
"How does a temple in India make sure that it gets 15,000 coconuts a
day delivered for its rituals? It simply depends on the faith of its
thousands of Hindu devotees who run a unique voluntary courier service
to faithfully deliver the fruit every day without fail. This is the
thousands of coconuts, which can total more than 100,000 on festival
days - reach the famous Maa Tarini temple in the eastern Indian state
of Orissa every day."
:
Hinduism is nuts.
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| User: "Budikka666" |
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| Title: Re: Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
06 Feb 2006 07:59:21 PM |
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Michael Gray wrote:
On 5 Feb 2006 13:20:38 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
- Refer: <1139174438.609622.94740@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
Muslims do it to animals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4185337.stm
Judaists do it to their own sons:
(Genesis 22:9)
Hindus do it to coconuts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm
Get your minds out of the gutter - I'm talking about sacrifice.
"How does a temple in India make sure that it gets 15,000 coconuts a
day delivered for its rituals? It simply depends on the faith of its
thousands of Hindu devotees who run a unique voluntary courier service
to faithfully deliver the fruit every day without fail. This is the
thousands of coconuts, which can total more than 100,000 on festival
days - reach the famous Maa Tarini temple in the eastern Indian state
of Orissa every day."
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Hinduism is nuts.
Now don't get everyone started on the puns again!
B.
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| User: "Puck Greenman" |
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| Title: Re: Re: Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
07 Feb 2006 11:21:18 AM |
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On 6 Feb 2006 17:59:21 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
Michael Gray wrote:
On 5 Feb 2006 13:20:38 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
- Refer: <1139174438.609622.94740@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
Muslims do it to animals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4185337.stm
Judaists do it to their own sons:
(Genesis 22:9)
Hindus do it to coconuts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm
Get your minds out of the gutter - I'm talking about sacrifice.
"How does a temple in India make sure that it gets 15,000 coconuts a
day delivered for its rituals? It simply depends on the faith of its
thousands of Hindu devotees who run a unique voluntary courier service
to faithfully deliver the fruit every day without fail. This is the
thousands of coconuts, which can total more than 100,000 on festival
days - reach the famous Maa Tarini temple in the eastern Indian state
of Orissa every day."
:
Hinduism is nuts.
Now don't get everyone started on the puns again!
B.
Agreed. You milked those coconut jokes dry, already.
--
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: Re: Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
07 Feb 2006 02:27:29 PM |
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:21:18 -0600, Puck Greenman wrote
(in article <kdlhu19ikgr49dam9ddgplr8hofoibgfir@4ax.com>):
On 6 Feb 2006 17:59:21 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
Michael Gray wrote:
On 5 Feb 2006 13:20:38 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net>
wrote:
- Refer: <1139174438.609622.94740@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>
Muslims do it to animals:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4185337.stm
Judaists do it to their own sons:
(Genesis 22:9)
Hindus do it to coconuts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4677320.stm
Get your minds out of the gutter - I'm talking about sacrifice.
"How does a temple in India make sure that it gets 15,000 coconuts a
day delivered for its rituals? It simply depends on the faith of its
thousands of Hindu devotees who run a unique voluntary courier service
to faithfully deliver the fruit every day without fail. This is the
thousands of coconuts, which can total more than 100,000 on festival
days - reach the famous Maa Tarini temple in the eastern Indian state
of Orissa every day."
Hinduism is nuts.
Now don't get everyone started on the puns again!
B.
Agreed. You milked those coconut jokes dry, already.
But there is still the husk, surely we can do something with that or with the
meat of the nut:
"At the Copra, Copra Cabana
The hottest spot North of Havana
Here at the Copra, Copra Cabana
Music and passion were always the fashion At the Copra ..."
(And apologies to Barry Manilow.)
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
"Jesus loves you, but Cthulu thinks you're part of a nutritious
breakfast."-Dr. Smartass
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| User: "Budikka666" |
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| Title: Re: Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
11 Feb 2006 07:07:09 AM |
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But to get this back on track - I notice not a single theist has been
able to offer any sort of explanation for this compulsion to sacririce
or any rational for its purpose. Why is this not surprising!
Budikka
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| User: "duke" |
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| Title: Re: Does a God *Really* Need Sacrifices? |
08 Feb 2006 05:20:29 AM |
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On 6 Feb 2006 17:59:21 -0800, "Budikka666" <budikka1@netscape.net> wrote:
Hinduism is nuts.
Now don't get everyone started on the puns again!
B.
Well, at least he has substance behind his words. Bud the dud, you're just a
plagiarist.
duke
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