how some Kansans celebrate Easter..
Offline A reply posted to the Lawrence Journal World's "On the Street" question of the day:
What does your family do to celebrate Easter?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on March 23, 2008
Well, being of mixed religious heritage, we all gather round in appropriate dress and:
(1)Present an offering by fire, a burnt offering, to the Lord: two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven yearling lambs — and see that they are without blemish.
(2)Such shall be the burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the Lord and by golly, we make sure that the odor is pleasing!
(3)And as the New Standard Bible says in Leviticus 1:9, we:
Its entrails, however, and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer up in smoke all of it on the altar for a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
(4) And in the fall, at harvest we will follow the example of King David who sacrificed the Gibeonites:
“and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the LORD, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, at the beginning of barley harvest. (2 Sam. 21:7-9)”
Those little decorated eggs just aren't as much fun as following the commands and examples of the Bible!
Next year we might try substituting Easter Bunnies for lambs, goats and bulls; those big animals are just too hard to catch!
Haven't seen any Gibeonites around for some years, so we will have to make a new *selection* for sacrificial victims.
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I get mine at the local middle eastern market. Guess they're short on those in Kansas.
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Well... the term "scapegoat" wasn't invented for nothing. Find yourself a local farm, get a goat, and beat the living shit out of it with some hyssop. Then, get everybody in the town to go up to the thing and wag their arms around for a while so that the bad shit can go into the goat. When that's done, stick a prod up its ass to get it going out of town. Pretty soon, there will be rain, and the fields will be fertile.
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