Sentences with phrase «animal sacrifices»
Animal sacrifices refer to a practice of offering animals to a higher power, usually as a religious or spiritual ritual. It involves killing an animal as a way to show devotion or seek favor from a deity or gods. Full definition
As with many of our investigations, there is a clear link of animal sacrifice to the illegal animal slaughter farms.
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PhD's involved in a religion that required animal sacrifice (non Jewish), yet I wouldn't call them stupid.
But it is not just animal sacrifice that is mentioned.
, «mercy and grace» like demands for cruel animal sacrifice and burning that your bible demands?
If that is true, rest assured she would prefer me to you, regardless of how many animals you sacrifice.
For that matter Animal sacrifices to pay for sins has been a practice in all major religions.
While antibodies certainly aren't «broken,» their production does require continued animal sacrifice.
Since the inception of ARM, investigators have discovered countless animal sacrifice sites and evidence of its practices.
In Judaism also the system of animal sacrifices in the Temple ritual had been elaborate.
jesus died for your sins so there is no need for animal sacrifice, eating kosher, avoiding a woman when she has her period, etc etc. god suddenly became much more of a sweet and loving god, where before he was jealous and prone to killing people that defied him.
The connection with animal sacrifice on the Day of Atonement is entirely absent.
In addition, ARM has merged forces with Mexico's leading animal advocacy organization, A.P.A.S.D.E.M, and is working on several other extreme animal cruelty operations throughout Mexico, such as animal sacrifice trading and bull fighting.
He explained that the significance of the season should be beyond the festivities, adding that as Muslims prepare to offer animal sacrifice in the prescribed days of the festival, the real essence was not in the meat or the blood of the animal but to encourage piety, self - discipline and sacrifice.
Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.
Fat and wood ash from animal sacrifices there washed into the Tiber River, creating a rudimentary cleaning agent that aided women doing their washing.
In 1993, for instance, the Supreme Court found that an ordinance banning animal sacrifice in Hialeah, Florida, though neutral on its face, was actually intended to discriminate against a Santeria church, which holds sacrifice as a sacred rite.
Solidifying this view of God in the Void is the appearance the triangle gives of being a slice into flesh, bringing to mind the act of atoning for sin through animal sacrifice in the Old Testament.
Hoodoo practitioners harness the power of natural herbs, and use animal sacrifice, bodily fluids and special elements such as lodestones to conjure their spells.
After all, as the rather grisly specifics of the practice of animal sacrifice suggest, it would require a rather unnatural detachment for the members of the Court not to disapprove of any of the variety of religious beliefs or practices that they encounter in the cases they must decide.
And then there are the explicit demands god makes in the OT for brutal animal sacrifice.
The research shows without doubt that the wooden figures were used in ceremonies involving animal sacrifice, says electroanalytical chemist Christian Amatore of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, who calls the protocol «failure - free.»
This is symbolic of the drink offering that would have accompanied animal sacrifices in the Levitical system, meant to remind them that «without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.»
Never to occur again (the Jews do not even offer animal sacrifices anymore!
More significantly, the partial foreshadowing of Christ's oblation in animal sacrifice set up the void in which his sacrifice could exist by revealing the distance between the earlier attempts at sacrifice and their fulfillment at Calvary.
So in the (not so distant) future look for him to do animal sacrifices in his yard, beat / kill his kids when they mouth off, torch his neighborhood when he realizes he lives next to people that don't believe as he does, own and beat his slaves, and we won't even discuss how he'll treat his wives.
Jesus was replacing this by becoming a (sinless) «human sacrifice,» once and for all time, thus eliminating the need for further animal sacrifice.
I think you would be on shakey ground theologically to not assume some sort of animal sacrifice here, surely?!? And certainly if you though anything else but animal skins were used — shakey.
Like Dade County ordinances prohibiting animal sacrifice by Santeria practitioners, which the U.S. Supreme Court rightly overturned in 1993 Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah, each of these laws specifically targets a particular form of religious expression, that of the WBC.