SACRED COWS & ADDICTIONS THERETO
Methinks there’s a starkly different world view between a number of Vatican Affiliates, some Calvinists, some Pentecostals . . . and myself.
Many RELIGIONISTS of EVERY stripe and flavor
are soooooooo enthralled with sacred cows, they build large herds of them and milk them for all they are worth.
They never met nor thought of nor fantasized of sacred cow that they could fail to adore, venerate, garland, caress, . . . Sacred cows comprise a major chunk of their life focus, interest, attention.
Quix, on the other hand, with different fingers firmly gripped around the ceremonial knife . . .
never met a sacred cow he thought should NOT be quickly sacrificed . . . repeatedly if the durn thing kept struggling back to life.
I can’t imagine either camp changing mentalities any time soon–though reality will foist a lot of CLASSES of sacred cows on quite a number of pyres sooner than many think likely.
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I have been immeasureably liberated into a greater depth, breadth, vibrancy, intensity, life giving reality in my RELATIONSHIP with God Almighty
FOR EVERY SACRED COW a loved one, OR even an ENEMY, has managed to slaughter . . . in my behalf or even out of pique and hostility.
Certainly it’s been far better when I’ve caught one roaming my mental range and slaughtered it myself. However, I’ve learned that THE PRIORITY is that the cussed thing is dead. It usually doesn’t matter by what means or out of what motive.
Is it possible that some folks consider other folks’ . . . how to put it . . . objects of adoration . . . to be unfitting sacred cows . . . when they aren’t all that unfitting and may not even Biblically nor even in God’s eyes quality as a “sacred cow?”
Sure.
So what?
IF the thing is NOT in any sense (say 0.00000000000%) a sacred cow in ANY unhealthy sense, then there’s no capacity for it to be slaughtered as a sacred cow. It is existentially and spiritually UNASSAILABLE!
IF It is a truly righteously spiritual NON-SACRED-COW . . . perhaps merely a fittingly SACRED focus . . . THEN, IT CAN ONLY BE SECURE IN JESUS . . . TRULY UNASSAILABLE.
ANYTHING ASSAILABLE, MUST NOT BE SECURE IN JESUS.
ANYTHING NOT SECURE IN JESUS . . . AND WHICH HAS AN INTENSE FOCUS . . . PARTICULARLY AN OBSESSIVE, COMPULSIVE, FIERCELY-RABIDLY-DEFENDED-IN-KNEE-JERK-FASHION-FOCUS–THEN HIGHLY LIKELY, IT IS A SACRED COW.
THE ONLY THING sacred cows are good for, is quickly slaughtering and sacrificing totally to ashes on an altar.
Sacred cows are a hindrance to God in any individual’s life.
Usually, sacred cows involve a death grip by the indivual around their necks.
It’s essentially impossible to hug God while hugging a sacred cow. Guess which Father God prefers . . . no, REQUIRES?
AGAIN:
1. Some folks seem only capable of collecting, feeding, adoring, breeding, multiplying, milking sacred cows for all they are worth.
2. Other folks seem ‘called’ to slaughter every sacred cow they encounter.
Such diverse folks are rarely great travel partners. One is always a bloody mess and the other is always desperately looking around for sacred cow replacements.
IF Prottys treated 1/20th the number things in their even RELIGIOUS lives as a sacred cow that so many Vatican Affiliates hereon seem to . . . the Protty’s would be wailing, whining, throwing dust in the air and rending their coveralls a noticeable amount.
Even those Prottys with some suspect sacred cows running around on their mental property, tend to not get that wound up about them, compared to Vatican affiliates responses about their sacred cows. Maybe even when SOME Prottys have real sacred cows, they just aren’t that ‘sacred’ to them???
Or maybe on such a forum, Prottys just don’t think it’s very . . . fitting . . . to wail, whine and throw dust in the air over a sacred cow. Maybe they inherently know that a sacred cow is not very spiritually beneficial and don’t dare make such a fuss for fear of being found out???
Then there’s the whole Biblical thing about TAKING OFFENSE. If I understand such Scriptures and such a Biblical perspective, IT DOES NOT MATTER whether the motive of the OFFENDER is horrible, or not. God would have us avoid offense.
Personally, I’ve learned to be eternally grateful for even Itinerate Hit And Run Sacred Cow Slaughterers. They have helped me clean up my spiritual life enormously.
[Triggered in part by Mad Dawg’s comment about gratuiously causing pain to other posters by things said about their religion, religious icons, facets etc.]
. . .
True enough.
I *THINK*
you understand that there’s a difference between “gratuitously causing pain”
vs
other motives which diverse folks experience as pain
some . . . seemingly looking for an excuse to wail, whine, moan and fuss.
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