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Holy cow bullshit! This Christian nutjob believes that torching a red heifer will bring world peace

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EARLIER this month, a red heifer went up in flames on a remote hilltop in northern Israel, thanks to evangelical Texas businessman and father of eight, Byron Stinson, above.

This 24-carat imbecile, according Religion News Service, believes that a red heifer sacrifice, described in the biblical Book of Numbers, could pave the way to rebuilding a Jewish temple in Jerusalem.

The new temple, which would replace a temple destroyed by the Romans in the first century, would usher in the kingdom of God, ruled by a messianic figure, and world peace will follow.

The burning of an “impure” heifer — it apparently had some blemishes — was merely a trial run for the actual sacrifice that will be held sometime in the future, when another of the five animals brought to Israel by the superstitious idiot will be torched.

Stinson, told RNS about the the practice ritual, held on July 1, and released photos and video of the ceremony.

Plans for the ritual have been years in the making. Stinson, who has a home in Israel and lives there part of the year, funded a search to find heifers that would fit the exacting requirements found in the biblical text. Those requirements include having no flaws or blemishes, even from the ear tags commonly used by ranchers in the United States.

Joshua Swanson, producer of a forthcoming red heifer documentary entitled “Holy Cow,” said the practice run was a step to the building of a new temple. 

In Revelation Chapter 11, it talks about the return of sacrifices. This red heifer ceremony is both for purification of the flesh and a sin offering and prepares the way for these types of sacrificial events.

Stinson said that when the actual ceremony is performed in the future, the heifer’s ashes will be mixed with water, which will then purify people from sin.

It only takes one pinch of ash from the burnt red heifer mixed with 10,000 gallons from a fresh source of water, and you’re good to go.

Organisers admitted the idea of a red heifer ceremony could be troubling to some.

RNS reports that the arrival of the five heifers in Israel may have played a role in the October 7, 2023, attack that began the Israel-Hamas war. In a speech listing motives for the attack on Israel, one of the leaders of Hamas accused Israelis of bringing the cows into the Holy Land, CBS News reported.

The Temple Mount is the current site of the Dome of the Rock, part of the al-Aqsa Mosque, an Islamic sacred site, and Muslims fear that it could be replaced by a third Jewish temple.

But Stinson said that in the end, it could have powerful effects for the good.

This is about physical purity that will bring longer lives, restoring our flesh back to God. In Romans, we find that the Jewish fathers of the faith kept the oracles of God.

He also said that news about the practice run had caused confusion, and he promised to provide more information about this hogwash in the future.

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4 responses to “Holy cow bullshit! This Christian nutjob believes that torching a red heifer will bring world peace”

  1. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    Burning an “impure” red heifer. This is sick. The so called God of of love wants an innocent animal to be set alight and burned alive. Just stop a moment and think about this. The death will not be quick. The animal will writhe and cry in extreme agony presumably watched by those who inflicted the suffering.

    I have a question. Is any creature more contemptible than the human pest. We kill each other non stop; we entertain ourselves by slaughtering other animals into extinction, we poison the air till it is unhealthy to breathe, the water unsafe to drink and ignore the now so obvious fact that we are ever more rapidly creating a planet on which we are becoming unfit to live.

    In our insane and cruel stupidly we have led scientists to despair in the failure to have the inevitable accepted and acted on. Meanwhile in our masses we have elected political grotesques to rule over all of us. While we persuade ourselves that we are the beloved of a non existent God of whom their has never been a jot of evidence of its existence.

    It is game over folks and with grandchildren I love it distresses me as I assume it does many of you.

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  2. stephenharvie Avatar
    stephenharvie

    There is nothing too sick, cruel, or depraved that can be committed in the name of religion.

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  3. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    And, Stephen, this is demonstrated again and again. We had a superb example today. A nunnery from Ireland -around 1925, I think’ took in unmarried pregnant mothers.

    The nunnery, long closed treated them with severe cruelty. Prresumably because they were wicked and had not gone through the superstitious ritual of a RC marriage. What is now happening after decades of opposition is that a piece of ground near the nunnery has been dug up. They have uncovered the remains of 970 (I think but easy to check) newly born babies.

    Bloody hell! The suffering behind the revelation doesn’t bear thinking about. Unless you are an RC.

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  4. Broga Avatar
    Broga

    I listened to the beginning of the religious sadist’s explanation of why they have flown 5 pure – no spots or blemishes- red heifers into Israel. Why had they to be pure? I also wonder about how they know the unseen internal bits of the heifers are pure. They have to be pure because the ashes of the heifers are to be sprinkled on priests who perform the religious bullshit to bring about world peace.

    Can this be true? Is it some complex joke? Or are there people so absolutely pure bloody daft that they believe this crap. Or isn’t there some Prevention of Cruelty to Animals organisation in Israel that can stop the willful and pointless torture of these poor heifers. What about public opinion in Israel which could protest again this outrage.

    Or is every outrage, every abuse, the most extreme cruelty accepted if it is performed under the aegis of religion.

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