Amputation. Powerful memes. Where have I seen this combination before?
Addressing it head-on: Galatians 6:13.
Explicitly fighting it by redefinition (how pomo!): 1 Corinthians 3:18-19; Colossians 2:11.
Saying that it is beside the point: Galatians 5:6.
Dismissing the practice as exclusionary: Romans 3:1,28-31.
It shows up again and again.
Christianity deals with it thus: The old blood sacrifice is obsoleted by the new sacrifice -- the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, the Lamb of God.
Surely if we look in other faith traditions we will also find, in some of them, efforts to combat this sort of thing. It seems to crop up again and again with memes. They want to mark people.
Addressing it head-on: Galatians 6:13.
Explicitly fighting it by redefinition (how pomo!): 1 Corinthians 3:18-19; Colossians 2:11.
Saying that it is beside the point: Galatians 5:6.
Dismissing the practice as exclusionary: Romans 3:1,28-31.
It shows up again and again.
Christianity deals with it thus: The old blood sacrifice is obsoleted by the new sacrifice -- the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, the Lamb of God.
Surely if we look in other faith traditions we will also find, in some of them, efforts to combat this sort of thing. It seems to crop up again and again with memes. They want to mark people.