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When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 2:27 pm
by _Joseph
With the idea of animal sacrifice being restored and bigbrig saying a room for it was to be part of the salt lake temple, anyone raising animals to sell to the church? Or is this the real driving force behind l-dsinc having all those big farms, to raise their own animals to kill in the temple?
http://boap.org/LDS/BOAP/SecondEd/Draft ... A-Text.pdf wrote:
President Brigham Young discussed plans for a room in the Salt Lake Temple to be used
for animal sacrifices: "[Speaking of the temple plan] Under the pulpit in the west end
[Aaronic priesthood end] will be a place to offer sacrifices. There will be an altar
prepared for that purpose so that when any sacrifices are to be offered, they should be
offered there." [Journal of Wilford Woodruff, December 18, 1857, Archives]
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 2:31 pm
by _Hoops
Joseph wrote:With the idea of animal sacrifice being restored and bigbrig saying a room for it was to be part of the salt lake temple, anyone raising animals to sell to the church? Or is this the real driving force behind l-dsinc having all those big farms, to raise their own animals to kill in the temple?
http://boap.org/LDS/BOAP/SecondEd/Draft-copy/Joseph Smith-Commentary-on-Book of Abraham-Text.pdf wrote:
President Brigham Young discussed plans for a room in the Salt Lake Temple to be used
for animal sacrifices: "[Speaking of the temple plan] Under the pulpit in the west end
[Aaronic priesthood end] will be a place to offer sacrifices. There will be an altar
prepared for that purpose so that when any sacrifices are to be offered, they should be
offered there." [Journal of Wilford Woodruff, December 18, 1857, Archives]
With LDS' zeal to be considered more mainstream Christianity, LDS will never consider performing animal sacrifices again.
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 2:34 pm
by _Buffalo
Word on the street is every time filet mignon is served to the brethren, the chop steaks are offered to Jehovah on the alter located in the COTPOTCOJCOLDS executive dining room.
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:50 pm
by _The Nehor
Hoops wrote:With LDS' zeal to be considered more mainstream Christianity, LDS will never consider performing animal sacrifices again.
I've considered it and expect it will happen. The 'mainstreaming' everyone says is more an attempt to get our beliefs and lifestyle out there rather then to make Christians think we are 'just like them'. The CoC has been trying to do this for years and has been willing to go much farther then we will ever be willing to and they still haven't succeeded.
The claim to being Christian is not something that we recently came up with; it is just something we've recently had a pulpit from which to share. Give it a few more years and the media will probably shift gears again and we'll probably go back to being portrayed as weirdos again.
All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again. There is nothing new under the sun.
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:20 am
by _Quasimodo
Buffalo wrote:Word on the street is every time filet mignon is served to the brethren, the chop steaks are offered to Jehovah on the alter located in the COTPOTCOJCOLDS executive dining room.
A revelation, Buff.
No need to make a special room in the Temple for animal sacrifices (all that mess to clean up). Just give a blessing to all slaughter houses and butcheries in the Corridor and we're on our way. Holy leg of lamb. Mmmm! Tastes much better when blessed (and a little mint sauce).
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:31 am
by _MrStakhanovite
I don't see how animal sacrifice would fit back into the Mormon picture. What is it about blood and fat burning on a alter have anything to do with Mormonism, other than being a typology for Christ's death?
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 12:31 am
by _just me
The LDS church won't even allow meal preparation in the church kitchens.
It is highly unlikely they will ever get past regulations needed in order to turn the temple into a slaughter house.
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 1:19 am
by _Joseph
The LDS church won't even allow meal preparation in the church kitchens.
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This silly 'rule' and reality in the kitchens of the wards and branches is very different.
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 2:02 am
by _just me
Joseph wrote:The LDS church won't even allow meal preparation in the church kitchens.
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This silly 'rule' and reality in the kitchens of the wards and branches is very different.
Tis true. I think it would be a little more difficult to fudge the rules on animal slaughter.
Re: When will animal sacrifices be reinstituted?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:04 am
by _The Nehor
MrStakhanovite wrote:I don't see how animal sacrifice would fit back into the Mormon picture. What is it about blood and fat burning on a alter have anything to do with Mormonism, other than being a typology for Christ's death?
Isn't that enough?