Religious Cognitive Dissonance

[nailit]

Thelands post below (re: ritual animal slaughter)
Sums it all up.
The biblical wholesale slaughter of animals and sacrifices is overlooked but the butchery by anyone else of animals is somehow abbhorent??

Same as when Biblical God orders the genocide of entire nations (including women children and animals) Its somehow righteous. When someone else does it, its evil in the extreme.
Cant wrap my head around how one is right and the other is wrong...

[Jackdaw33]

//Religious Cognitive Dissonance\\

What psychobabble textbook did you get that term from?

[nailit]

JD. If you are not aware of cognative dissonance, its easy to google.
Try it.

[nailit]

I learnt about it while doing gcse psychology. Not even A level stuff.
Pretty elementary.

[Neveracrossword]

I don't think the majority of people are 'overlooking' the stuff in the Bible - it's totally irrelevant to most of us. We'd have to believe in the Bible's contents in the first place for there to be any 'dissonance'.

[nailit]

//I don't think the majority of people are 'overlooking' the stuff in the Bible //
Strawman argument. No one ever said they were.

[Mamyalynne]

Human beings are contrary when it comes to things like this, brushing aside what they don't want to hear or accept.

We must also remember there's a difference between Ritual Slaughter as aforementioned and Animal Sacrifice.

[nailit]

//We must also remember there's a difference between Ritual Slaughter as aforementioned and Animal Sacrifice//

Doubt that the animal would know any difference though.
Its still a terrified, sentient being at the time of death.

[Neveracrossword]

Nailit, who is 'overlooking' the Biblical slaughter, who is saying Biblical genocide is 'righteous'? I don't know any, do you?

[Mamyalynne]

I see, you don't want reasoned input.

Fair enough.

[nailit]

//Human beings are contrary when it comes to things like this, brushing aside what they don't want to hear or accept//

Couldn't agree more.
We (as humans) do seem a tadge strange to me. We love animals and yet we eat them, work them, and keep them as pets.

[nailit]

//I see, you don't want reasoned input. //
Suit yourself. I never said that.

[nailit]

//Nailit, who is 'overlooking' the Biblical slaughter, who is saying Biblical genocide is 'righteous'? I don't know any, do you?//

Err, yes!
The post below this one for example?

[Neveracrossword]

Nailit, I'm sure you're not assuming all Christians believe every word that's in the Bible, every Christian follows every word of the Commandments. No Christian has ever committed adultery, stolen....

[nailit]

//Nailit, I'm sure you're not assuming all Christians believe every word that's in the Bible, every Christian follows every word of the Commandment//
Well to be fair, Yes I was!
Cant understand the idea of following only 'parts' of a book.

[Old_Geezer]

One has God's blessing, the other not.

[nailit]

//One has God's blessing, the other not//
That'll be it!
Sorted!

[Theland]

I would still like to know if you would eat grass or animal?

[nailit]

Animal. What about you?

[Neveracrossword]

Nailit, there are far too many contradictions in the Bible for anyone to live by it- an eye for an eye/turn the other cheek; I have seen God/no man hath seen God; Every man child … shall be circumcised/If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. It's simply not possible.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Well, we know that the consecration of Solomon's temple was "celebrated" by the slaughter of a thousand cattle, don't we?

But the Bible (even the Old Testament) is not of a piece:
From Micah chapter 6:

"6 Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?"

A beautiful sentiment expressed in the beautiful language of the AV.