Sentences with phrase «pig as a sacrifice»
Demetrius the 1st, the nephew of Antiochus the 5th, in 161bce, put on a pig as a sacrifice, after destroying the Solomon temple, worshiping sun - gods, soon after chirstianity began of the 1st, and 2nd centuries.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/ Not exact matches
The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle, sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's live export trade; closer to home, in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...
He posited himself as an unwitting guinea pig, sacrificing himself so that -LSB-...]
But it's not so nutty if some of the skeptics are referring to lessons such as those in Animal Farm, where the pigs ask for reasonable sacrifice in the beginning which keeps getting larger and by the end the animals are seen to have been better off with the humans.