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Post by Rodney Farber on Mar 16, 2023 14:41:08 GMT
- Boston Archdiocese When I was in high school, the cafeteria always served fish every Friday. At the time, I didn't like fish and was annoyed that the public school catered to Catholics. Looking back on it, fish should be part of a balanced diet. If you serve it occasionally, why not fit it into the schedule of some of the students. Sometime after my high school, the edict was modified to only require no-meat-Fridays during Lent. If God made the no-meat-on-Fridays rule, then how does one person get to waive Jehovah's rule? If it's not Yahweh's rule, why follow it in the first place? Religion isn't about belief; it's about power and the desire to control others.
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Post by drystyx on Mar 16, 2023 14:58:52 GMT
The many laws given to us by Moses are not rules from God. Even God spoke to say the people make poor demands.
Why aren't the laws good today? Were they once good? Was there a different fish meant perfect for human consumption four thousand years ago, a fish that was quickly fished to extinction? Quite likely.
Fish is still more digestible than almost any other entree, certainly more than any mammal.
The laws concerning two witnesses being worthier than one are ridiculous today. Those laws only help the mobs and gangs and criminal families. People today have zero qualms about lying. Was it different four thousand years ago? Three thousand years ago? In the days of Jesus two thousand years ago? Maybe.
It certainly isn't true today that two witnesses are right against one. Have you ever, and I mean EVER, seen a case where the two or more people witnessing against one have been telling the truth? I have never seen it except in cases where either my older brother or I stood up for an innocent person who was wrongly accused, at least for anything less than a felony. Even in felonies, it is rare that two people who agree with each other are telling the truth.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 16, 2023 17:46:14 GMT
Pretty sure this was a rule made up by Catholics. But I'm not Catholic and never heard of it until probably my 30s.
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Post by paulslaugh on Mar 16, 2023 18:25:03 GMT
The point of fasting lost it meaning over time and got caught up in rituals dogma. One is supposed to contemplate on their sin while longing for a cheeseburger.
The Christians “evolved” within an extremely sacrificial oriented society where animal sacrifice was the central part of worship. At feasts, a portion of animals slaughtered for the meal were totally burnt up so the god or gods, who are also at the meal, could enjoy the “sweet odor.” This was central to Jewish temple worship as well though the entire animal was charcoaled.
Christians did away with animal sacrifice focusing instead on Christ’s sacrifice. His body in the form of bread and wine becomes the sacrifice eaten and the humans who have fasted before taking communion are in essence sacrificing their bodily “meat” to Christ through the pang of hunger and weight loss. For people back then to go on a diet to lose a few pounds was unheard of. Most people were underweight, so losing a body fat was a real sacrifice.
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Post by paulslaugh on Mar 16, 2023 18:28:31 GMT
Pretty sure this was a rule made up by Catholics. But I'm not Catholic and never heard of it until probably my 30s. Most of it was done away with in Vatican II. |
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Post by gadreel on Mar 16, 2023 19:04:01 GMT
Of course God does not tell us what to do, humans wrote the bible. Having said that a lot of the 'rules' make sense at the time, although the reason for no meat fridays is not religious at all, it's political.
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