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Faith 
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Message 331 of 507 (870173)
01-13-2020 5:26 PM
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01-13-2020 5:13 PM


I have a very strong aversion to seeing that movie but since you think it's worth it could you give a little more of an idea why you think that? Thanks.

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Message 332 of 507 (870174)
01-13-2020 5:36 PM
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01-13-2020 5:26 PM


Faith writes:
I have a very strong aversion to seeing that movie but since you think it's worth it could you give a little more of an idea why you think that? Thanks.
It's just a good film - well written, well filmed and brilliantly acted. Up for an oscar. It isn't a whitewash either - there's some tough stuff in it.

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Message 333 of 507 (870175)
01-13-2020 5:40 PM
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01-13-2020 11:04 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
That passage is understood to refer to Catholic practices so abstaining from meats is understood to refer to abstention on Fridays, when fish is eaten instead. I was wondering if maybe the abstention was more lengthy in other times, but Friday is the practice we were all aware of when I was growing up.

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Message 334 of 507 (870183)
01-14-2020 7:07 AM
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01-13-2020 5:36 PM


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Thanks. Enough to get me to give it a look.

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Message 335 of 507 (870188)
01-14-2020 10:42 AM
Reply to: Message 329 by dwise1
01-13-2020 2:18 PM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
dwise1 writes:
...how do we explain Abel's burnt offerings to YHWH (AKA "God")? Yes, he got wool and possibly milk and other dairy products from his sheep, but why then kill them to make burnt offerings?
I've asked that same question and got no answer.
dwise1 writes:
However, the earlier story was that meat eating started with The Fall;
That would make more sense; God gave Adam and Eve animal skins to replace their fig leaves.
"Carpe" looks like the English "carp" which is a fish. Therefore "carpe diem" must mean "fish day", which every Catholic knows is Friday.
It would be funnier (though even worse linguistically) if it was "sieze the fish".

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Message 336 of 507 (870189)
01-14-2020 10:48 AM
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01-13-2020 5:40 PM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
Faith writes:
That passage is understood to refer to Catholic practices so abstaining from meats is understood to refer to abstention on Fridays, when fish is eaten instead.
Well, of course fish is meat in the Biblical context - e.g. shedding of blood.
quote:
Genesis 9:3-5 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
Fish got blood.

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Message 337 of 507 (870190)
01-14-2020 10:54 AM
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01-14-2020 10:42 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
Cain and Abel were after the Fall, so what's the problem with the burnt offering Abel gave? Offerings were needed for sin, sin followed the Fall.

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Message 338 of 507 (870191)
01-14-2020 10:57 AM
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01-14-2020 10:48 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
So on Fridays we can only eat veggies, and octopuses, crustaceans and insects . Classified as bloodless.

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Message 339 of 507 (870192)
01-14-2020 11:15 AM
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01-14-2020 10:54 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
Faith writes:
Cain and Abel were after the Fall, so what's the problem with the burnt offering Abel gave? Offerings were needed for sin, sin followed the Fall.
I wasn't sure if i had had the discussion with you specifically so I didn't accuse you of saying it - but some literalist nutbars claim that the passage in Genesis was God giving Noah permission for the first time to eat meat.
You literalist nutbars have a problem conflating the Adam and Eve story with the Cain and Abel story and the Noah story. They're different stories. They don't need to agree in every detail. Trying to shoehorn all of them into agreement is what makes your theology so stupid.

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Message 340 of 507 (870193)
01-14-2020 11:19 AM
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01-14-2020 10:57 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
frako writes:
So on Fridays we can only eat veggies, and octopuses, crustaceans and insects .
You can't eat crustaceans at all. That would be like wearing a cotton-polyester shirt, strictly taboo. The same would apply to insects, including the four-legged ones, unless they have cloven hooves and chew their cud. I'm not sure where octopuses fit in in Judaic taxonomy.

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Message 341 of 507 (870194)
01-14-2020 11:26 AM
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01-14-2020 11:15 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
That DOES look like the first time God told people to eat meat, what's the problem with that? Do we have to assume that Abel ate the sacrifice he made? It doesn't say one way or the other, so if they were still under the vegetarian rule of Genesis 1:whatever it was, then he wouldn't have eaten the sacrifice.
And what's stupid about fitting all the parts of the Bible together anyway? Isn't that what one would expect if it's God's work?

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Message 342 of 507 (870195)
01-14-2020 11:28 AM
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01-14-2020 10:48 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
The RCC seems to have decreed that fish was not the meat their tradition forbade, who am I to argue?

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Message 343 of 507 (870196)
01-14-2020 11:40 AM
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01-14-2020 11:26 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
Faith writes:
That DOES look like the first time God told people to eat meat, what's the problem with that?
The problem is that you can't seem to get your story straight.
Faith writes:
Do we have to assume that Abel ate the sacrifice he made?
Why would we not? Eating the meat would be less objectionable than wasting the meat.
Faith writes:
It doesn't say one way or the other, so if they were still under the vegetarian rule of Genesis 1:whatever it was, then he wouldn't have eaten the sacrifice.
It also doesn't say that the "vegetarian rule" was a rule. God said they could eat this. He didn't say they couldn't eat that.
Faith writes:
And what's stupid about fitting all the parts of the Bible together anyway?
It's the conclusions you draw that are stupid. Imagine the stupid conclusions if you tried to fit The Grapes of Wrath and The Lord of the Rings together.
Faith writes:
Isn't that what one would expect if it's God's work?
And since the stories don't fit together, we can conclude that it is not God's work. God, if He existed, would not need you to try to stitch His stories together.

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Message 344 of 507 (870197)
01-14-2020 11:41 AM
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01-14-2020 11:28 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
Faith writes:
The RCC seems to have decreed that fish was not the meat their tradition forbade, who am I to argue?
It just goes to show that both you and the RCC can come to stupid conclusions if you start with stupid premises.

"I'm Fallen and I can't get up!"

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Message 345 of 507 (870198)
01-14-2020 11:46 AM
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01-14-2020 11:41 AM


Re: It's ALL made up, both sides of the issue, forget what God has to say about it
Oh nonsense. They put their traditions above the Bible and I'm trying to stick with the Bible. Forbidding meat is already wrong according to the Bible so if they also want to decree that fish aren't the kind of meat that's forbidden there's nothing to tell them they're wrong about that either.

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