The very definition of hypocrisy...

[MineralMan]

A family sitting at the dining table, eating a lovely roast chicken dinner after Sunday services that included the sacrament of Eucharist, has a discussion about how terrible it is that the Santeria community in their city sacrifices chickens as part of their worship.

[rug]

1. That's a poor example.

How is eating a wheat-based host comparable to killing a chicken for worship?

I suppose you're attempting to point fingers at religious beliefs again but this frankly doesn't do it.

If you really want to point fingers, try Catholics wearing scapulars mocking Mormon underwear. That is, if you really want to go down this path.

[MineralMan]

2. Oh, dear, rug...

Did you not notice the reference to the main course of the meal they're eating?

I won't bother explaining the sacrifice connection to the Eucharist. Uff da!

Have a nice Sunday, won't you?

[Sam1]

8. Uff da. Do you have the coffee cup?

This is totally off subject but my Grandmother and all my aunts on my father side would say that if they had difficulty sitting down or getting up and that was about fifty years ago.

[MineralMan]

9. My mother-in-law has the cup. I'm only Norwegian by marriage.

[Sam1]

11. My Paternal Grandparents were immigrants and my grandfather held masters papers for the

Great Lakes. Seeing the words takes me back a bit.

[MineralMan]

12. Nice.

Glad to give you a bump.

[Fumesucker]

3. To be fair...

They did say a blessing wherein they thanked and praised God before they ate the chicken.

So there is that.

[MineralMan]

4. Well, that's true enough, I guess.

So, they prayed over their chicken, too, but someone else killed it for them. I understand now.

[okasha]

5. You were present when this occurred?

n/t

[cleanhippie]

6. You weren't?

I guess a family sitting down to a hearty Sunday meal after church in America is just some "atheist propaganda", huh?

[okasha]

7. Apparently no one was present, and the event did not occur.

As long as we're dealing in fiction, how is a Christian eating fried chicken while deploring the sacrifice of chickens in Santeria any worse than an atheist eating fried chicken while deploring the sacrifice of chickens in Santeria?

You are, as usual, replying to an issue that was not raised.

[cleanhippie]

10. You are, as usual, dodging an issue that you yourself raised.

[okasha]

13. The issue was not, as you say, "a hearty meal."

It was the hipocricy of condemning one way of killing chickens while eating those killed in another manner.

And since it seems you've got your knickers in a twist over the non-issue you raised, I have no problems with anyone eating a hearty meal at any time. I've cooked hearty meals. I've eaten them. I've invited others to participate in them.

If you have anything further to say to me, kindly stick to the issue I acutally raised.

[cleanhippie]

14. The issue YOU raised was "were you present when this occured?"

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Which really makes no sense at all. Looking at the OP, which reads...

A family sitting at the dining table, eating a lovely roast chicken dinner after Sunday services that included the sacrament of Eucharist, has a discussion about how terrible it is that the Santeria community in their city sacrifices chickens as part of their worship.

You asked "were you present when this occurred?", and unless you are talking about being present at the Santeria sacrifice, which would be asinine since Mineral Man isn't talking about that, he is talking about the hypocrisy of one family eating dead chicken after their religious ceremony while denigrating another for killing a chicken as part of their religious ceremony.

So tell me, just what was the issue you raised with your comment of "You were present when this occurred?" Because it ain't about chickens. And it ain't as if this never happened, you know, with more than 100 million families in this country and all...


Now, feel free to wiggle around until you think you have found a way to walk that back. This should be interesting.

[okasha]

15. The issue of this thread was raised in the OP.

I was questioning, and still question, the credibility of the post. Since MM has chosen to hit and run on this, I assume he simply doesn't want to be embarrassed by having to admit he invented the scenario and tossed it out as flamebait.

You're trying to deflect the thread, as ususal. Playground tactics, but ineffective.