Deuteronomy 12:15-16
However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer. Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth like water.
Discuss.
My family has always been meat eaters. We’ve had a few folks over the years experiment around with vegetarian diets but that never lasts. One thing that solidified that for me, was when I was in 7th grade and I was invited over to my buddy’s house for dinner one night.
They served these venison steaks, cooked slow on a grill. Like, mostly just smoked slow.
Oh man.
Oh man oh man oh man oh man… I fell totally in love with it.
They invited me to go deer hunting with them the next fall. My mom was pretty much opposed to the idea, that I didn’t have any real good experience shooting and handling a rifle. But had I fired a hunting rifle several times and mom was all for me learning. These guys were expert hunters and had their whole family go out for deer every year so their freezer was kept well-stocked.
But she wasn’t comfortable with me killing an animal like that I guess.
I think what he is saying is blow jobs are acceptable just don’t swallow.
You can eat their liver with a nice Chianti,
You humans are pretty good at pouring blood on the earth like water, but you’re not much good for anything else. So sayeth the rabbit.
@1 Bambi killer!!
Well, if you’re going to shoot the animal, eat the animal.
For an IDIOT Wabbit whom claims to be a Christian there is true lack of Bible remembrance or understanding… The blood is life.
Leviticus 17:12-14 Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.” “‘Any Israelite or any foreigner residing among you who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood and cover it with earth, because the life of every creature is its blood. That is why I have said to the Israelites, “You must not eat the blood of any creature, because the life of every creature is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.”
The IDIOT Wabbit is a sad early onset senile one! Worse than 24 hour moronic moonbattic memory malady displayed by the teabaggin buttbusting BULLSHITTIUM buttbigot gorilla in the Friday Night Comix from posts 39-46!
@7 Htf is that relevant to what I posted @4? Which, if you didn’t figure it out — and you seem not to have — refers to you stupid humans’ fetishes for war and killing? To which I might add that those calling themselves “Christians” are just as bad in that respect as the rest, if not worse.
Initially this passage to me is a big huh. Like the incredible Moses had an off day. You know it had to be tough being an all around diplomat, high priest, law giver, law enforcer, general, family man, ect. Maybe he or the Lord was having an off day. Obviously the Israelites ate meat and had been eating meat all their lives. Even the unclean. The whole thing about clean and unclean animals is what it is.
Still this whole thing about the blood brings up cultural stuff. Really you can’t get all the blood out of an animal carcass and they didn’t hook up a vacuum to get all the blood out that did not drain out. What do you do when your son or daughter sucks blood from a wound rather than letting it fall upon the ground like water. Is it ok if it’s their blood. I do understand that a proper Jewish kitchen has separate areas for meat and dairy with separate utensils that must be kept separate and cleaned separately. Seems to be a hassle yet people do this.
Of course Europeans and other cultures didn’t whole heartedly adopt this whole blood concept. After all there is blood pudding and blood sausage. Many deer hunters go with the concept that you must drink the blood of the deer you have just killed particularly if it’s the first time a hunter has killed a deer or other animal. Yep literally blood thirsty. Ultimately Christians turn this whole blood thing on it’s head with the importance of he blood of Jesus. Dying for our sins ect. Of course gave rise to the legend of the Holy Grail. The chalice or cup that caught the blood of Jesus and anyone drinking or touching that blood is miraculously cured or even raised from the dead. (Not as vampires but this whole blood and rising from the dead three days later sounds rather familiar.) Certainly fundamentalist Christians should be following all the Judaic rules about this killing and eating of animals and the pouring the blood out on the earth, but this is a case where few if any are following the Judaic law and don’t believe they have to even consider doing so or put forth a consistent argument they don’t need too being freed by Jesus’ sacrifice. They are either free of the law of the Old testament and not pick and choose or use the ones that conveniently support their point of view on a matter of significance today.
So do you vegetarians wish to point out it’s ok to choose to not eat meat per this passage? That the roebuck and hart should be allowed to stride powerfully over field wood and stream as the magnificent beings they are. (Personally I like my gazelle with butter and a little rosemary and thyme.)
Is it cruel for a farmer to name a pig Bacon?
Mom always told me to eat my vegetables so does this mean Momma > biblical god at least as far as dietary advice goes.