Friday, September 28, 2012

Alien thoughts

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"As diverse as the various local or regional settings of ritual killing might have been, the intricate relationship between killing an...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Thought for today

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So men, in their sins, treat the realities of the spiritual world as if they were not real, but follow the most empty phantoms of this world...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Sacrifice

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"In the ancient Near East in general, the sacrifice as an offering to otherworldly beings is always part of a complex ritual as a commu...

Thought for today

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In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe. So he ended their days in futility and their ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Ritual or religious?

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"I define rituals as acts that have a social meaning and are designed to communicate with an audience. Such acts are not necessarily re...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Intersection or union?

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"In our view ritual and sacrifice are concepts that intersect rather than interbed. Ritual implies repetition, the routinized sequence ...
Friday, September 21, 2012

The Cosmology of sacrifice

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"One thing is clear. It is being dead, rather than being killed, that seems to be uppermost in the disposition and meaning of these par...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Once they are dead...

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"[it is] clear in all the materials relating to death and the afterlife here, that the dead have continued roles to play long after the...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Thought for today

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Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wick...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Why sacrifice works...

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"Meaning inheres in why provisions, feasts, and gifts are considered appropriate, in what they are thought to accomplish, in what relat...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Salvation from what?

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"Salvation, to be real and available, must be salvation from sin. Everything else fails. Any system of religion which does not break th...

The leaves they are a turning

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This last week, the leaves started to turn down by the lake. I guess that means fall is coming...so, it's time to plant a garden :) And ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Why sacrifice?

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"...sacrifice is effected to permeate the borders between the worlds of human and divine, natural and supernatural. Regardless of its i...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Taking the short-term view

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You have gone on as if the motives to sin were all-persuasive, and as if sin's promises of good were more reliable than God's. When ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The life force is what counts...

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"Ethnographic and historic examples such as the private farms, temples and public structures in Romano-British England where foundation...
Friday, August 31, 2012

And the answer is...

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The whole question is, will you please God, or please yourself? Will you give your heart to Him, or give it to your own selfish enjoyment? S...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

A different point of view

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"Sacrificial victims who were selected not from captive groups or slaves but from within the community, were often regarded as inhabiti...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Miscellany

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I haven't been real good about updating this blog since we moved. There are multiple reasons for that: We are living in a small cabin wi...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Truly great

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"Enduring great companies don't exist merely to deliver returns to shareholders. Indeed, in a truly great company, profits and cash...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Thought for today

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“...what is being a Christian? Giving your heart to God. And what is giving your heart to God? Devoting your voluntary powers to Him; ceasin...
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