food offerings related to blood sacrifice?

[David Dalton]

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 alt.religion and other groups.)

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[Giovanna Stefani]

David Dalton scrive:

> 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,

I have been known to do this with bread, cake, biscuit, wine, grape
juice ... those kinds of things (also with less edible items like flowers
etc).

> and if so do you consider them a time-delayed thinly veiled form of
> blood sacrifice or not,

Absolutely not. It is hard to blood sacrifice plant life.

> and if not, why not?

Because the two things are unrelated. Blood sacrifice involves the gift
not only of blood but (usually but not compulsorily) also of a life.
Sharing one's food ... as part of sharing all one has ... with deities is
rather more caring and devotional than ripping someone's throat out.


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Giovanna