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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   I have the message below on my Salmon on the Thorns web   
   page, and I would like to know if you participate in   
   ritual food offerings, and if so do you consider them   
   a time-delayed thinly veiled form of blood sacrifice   
   or not, and if not, why not?   
      
   1. no form of blood sacrifice including of humans and of   
   non-humans. This message against blood sacrifice extends   
   to any, if any, forms of food offerings that do constitute   
   a thinly-veiled form of time-delayed (no magickal/spiritual   
   intent at time of slaughter but added later, but effectively   
   time-delayed blood sacrifice) blood sacrifice and perhaps   
   not all forms of food offerings do (maybe none do).   
   Similarly, if ritual slaughter, e.g. Jewish ritual slaughter,   
   is a thinly-veiled form of blood sacrifice I am against that,   
   but I do not know all the details of that so do not know if   
   it is a thinly veiled form of blood sacrifice or not. It   
   also should be discussed whether Christian communion is a   
   time-delayed veiled form of blood sacrifice.   
      
   (I have also posted about the Jewish ritual slaughter   
   and Christian communion, separately, to talk.religion.misc   
   and other groups.)   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
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