Remember that Mohammed created his religion by taking parts of Judaism,
Christianity and Persian Zorastrianism. However there is archaeological
evidence that the Hebrews surrounding neighbors, Arabs, raised pigs. So
the Moslem injunction is more modern than the 10 Commandments.

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> said:

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> said:

Darrell Stec wrote in alt.atheism

Sgeo wrote:
Hint: what is the morality of not boiling a kid in its mother's milk?

Giving a sacrifice to the senior god[ & possibly their population] of
the area, baal.

Do you know if it was a communal meal, or just something the priests
boiled up in their private cauldrons, behind the temple walls and
curtains?

<raises left eyebrow precisely .0000005 picometers> <Extends right paw &
gently pins Elroy in place>
Pay attention grasshopper, the dance will be quick.
It was a sacrifice to the god himself. Otherwise, the Judaic mythology
would not have made a big deal out of it.

I dunno if he was pulling my leg, but it was the first I'd heard of it
not being some kind of dietary law about mixing milk and meat, like on
a cheeseburger or in beef stroganoff, etc.

Then you heard wrong as well, but then, so had I.

It's hard to know who to believe, actually, when it comes to such
things. One group says it's a dietary law, and another says it's
something else. The Jews certainly have taken it to the extreme, if
you ask me...

What you have to do, if you are sincerely interested, is the basic
research. You start out with finding out why certain deities were held
in such dismaying that every time they turn around they were boo hooing
about people worshiping them. Rule of Tom, in the Hebrew Bible, when
any god is receiving the badmouth routine, it's because Judeans are
worshiping that god. As late as the book of Hosea, contained references
to the worship of baal being invoked as well as the claim that yahweh
had really been baal all along.

In <6q1p539dm5vg92s2i6fvvtja7bsu1t61pt@4ax.com>, on 05/29/07
at 04:00 PM, Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> said:

walksalone@the.ritz wrote in alt.atheism

Elroy Willis <elroywillis@swbell.net> said:

Darrell Stec wrote in alt.atheism

Sgeo wrote:

Hint: what is the morality of not boiling a kid in its mother's milk?

Giving a sacrifice to the senior god[ & possibly their population] of
the area, baal.

Do you know if it was a communal meal, or just something the priests
boiled up in their private cauldrons, behind the temple walls and
curtains?

<raises left eyebrow precisely .0000005 picometers> <Extends right paw &
gently pins Elroy in place>

Pay attention grasshopper, the dance will be quick.
It was a sacrifice to the god himself. Otherwise, the Judaic mythology
would not have made a big deal out of it.

One Muslim fellow told me that commandment is actually about not

allowing a mother to have control over children past a certain age, or
allowing them to "boil" in her control, so to speak.

Nope, but they may believe that. It was a sacrificial rite used in the
worship of baal. many of the do nots were aimed at reinforcing the
misconception that the Judeans were different from the other Canaanite
tribes.

Do you know if Muslims have the same phobia of mixing meat and dairy
products as the Jews, these days? I know they both won't eat pork, but
I wasn't sure about the dairy and meat thing for Muslims.

Can't say, don't care.

I dunno if he was pulling my leg, but it was the first I'd heard of it
not being some kind of dietary law about mixing milk and meat, like on
a cheeseburger or in beef stroganoff, etc.

Then you heard wrong as well, but then, so had I.

It's hard to know who to believe, actually, when it comes to such
things. One group says it's a dietary law, and another says it's
something else. The Jews certainly have taken it to the extreme, if
you ask me...

What you have to do, if you are sincerely interested, is the basic
research. You start out with finding out why certain deities were held
in such dismaying that every time they turn around they were boo hooing
about people worshiping them. Rule of Tom, in the Hebrew Bible, when
any god is receiving the badmouth routine, it's because Judeans are
worshiping that god. As late as the book of Hosea, contained references
to the worship of baal being invoked as well as the claim that yahweh
had really been baal all along.

If you want to see how the OT writings were manipulated, in one series
of events, try Israel's beneficient Dead, ISBN 1575060086
If you can, get it through the local library. Their funding depends on
usage & number of members. Then buy it if you think its worth the money.

BTW, it's a thesis & well documented.

walksalone who may be telling on himself, but knowledge, like beauty &
laughter is worthless until it's shared.

I've been catching bits and pieces about Baal from different online
articles and TV documentaries lately, and from what I've learned, Baal
is just another god some of the ancient Jews used to worship and call
their god.

They were polytheistic to start with, but then, to start with they were
a portion of the Canaanite society that got their nose out of joint and
assumed they were better than anybody else. Of course, during that era,
that was a fairly routine attitude.

It was actually a good god to many Jews, but a bad god to other Jews.

It was a good god to all of Canaan because it was a god of rain and
associated with the fertility of the crops. This was something that
priesthood had not yet got around to claiming on behalf of yahweh.

I count at least three different gods the Jews have worshipped in their
pretended "monotheistic" history, don't you?

EL, YHVH, BAAL...

Why did you capitalize those names, they were not capitalized during the
time they were in use.

Did you know that Hannibal means "Grace of Baal?"

& Gideon had the original name called "my family serves baal" it was
quite common during that era for gods names to be incorporated into
personal names.