What is Christianity's view on cannibalism?
Is it a sin to eat another human? Please provide references.
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Is it a sin to eat another human? Please provide references.
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Cannibalism
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SpaceMonk
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You want to eat another human?Kris_J said:
Maybe that'd be the sin of greed?
Actually it seemed to be accepted that if an Israelite city was laid siege to, as punishment from their god, then it's inhabitants would end up eating their own children when they ran out of other food.
It wasn't commanded, or forbidden, but rather a horrific consequence...
Leviticus 26:29 and Deuteronomy 28:53
It seems to me that under the classifications of what is clean and unclean meat, that humans would fall into the unclean classification, and so be forbidden, seeing as we don't chew the cud or have cloven hoofs -but then again we may also not be classed as 'beasts'.
Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
...but then, when the Israelites were to have fully conquered the promised land their god promised them:
The only other thing I can think of is this:
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When I was a lad I became enamoured of the book MOBY DICK and voraciously read everything I could on whaling.
I know there have been a couple of instances of shipwrecked sailors drawing lots then killing and eating the unlucky one so the others could survive.
Eating human flesh purely for survival purposes (viz. the infamous Donner party or the rugby players whose plane crashed in the Andes) is not a sin, particularly if the flesh comes from people who have died of natural causes or by accident.
Now, specific to Christianity, there is the issue of communion a.k.a. the Lord's Supper. Most Protestants hold that the wine and bread symbolize Christ's blood and flesh, while Catholics hold to the doctrine of transsubstantiation (spl?) in which the wine and wafer become the blood and flesh of Christ once consumed.
I know there have been a couple of instances of shipwrecked sailors drawing lots then killing and eating the unlucky one so the others could survive.
Eating human flesh purely for survival purposes (viz. the infamous Donner party or the rugby players whose plane crashed in the Andes) is not a sin, particularly if the flesh comes from people who have died of natural causes or by accident.
Now, specific to Christianity, there is the issue of communion a.k.a. the Lord's Supper. Most Protestants hold that the wine and bread symbolize Christ's blood and flesh, while Catholics hold to the doctrine of transsubstantiation (spl?) in which the wine and wafer become the blood and flesh of Christ once consumed.
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well...I don't think it's a sin to eat another human, but It's probably a sin to kill them first. but if they were dead and you wanted to eat them...i don't think it's a sin.
people eating dogs in China? not a sin, good eats!
people eating dogs in China? not a sin, good eats!
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Wow, I've been off-base all these years.
I thought a cannibal was someone who smoked cannabis.
How silly. Silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly,.
I thought a cannibal was someone who smoked cannabis.
How silly. Silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly, silly,.
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Beoga
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this is weird, in acting class today, we were working on improv and stuff, and so our teacher with a student showed us a type of improv acting, and the theme was world hunger and so they are going through this scene where the student was the village cheif and the teacher was a visiter, well because there was no food (world hunger), the chief/student said she had eaten all the children because she was so funny, i found it to be friggin hilarious, hehe
*brian leaves thread now
*brian leaves thread now
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but anyway, yes to survive and they had already died on me, selfhish *******s, juist as I woudl expcet them to eat me
but anyway, yes to survive and they had already died on me, selfhish *******s, juist as I woudl expcet them to eat me
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Hmmm... It seems that it is not sinful to eat humans. What if human remains are eaten by other humans as a delicacy & that the cadaver died lawfully & previously gave permission to be eaten?
I would have thought it sinful to eat a human in a not-for-survival situation but it seems not to be.
Hmmm... aside from mad-cow type disease (?) it seems that there is nothing biblically wrong with eating humans???
I would have thought it sinful to eat a human in a not-for-survival situation but it seems not to be.
Hmmm... aside from mad-cow type disease (?) it seems that there is nothing biblically wrong with eating humans???
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I think:
Mark 7:18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Mark 7:19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
is going to cause some problems for anyone who wants to say that it is sinful in all cases.
Mark 7:18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Mark 7:19Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
is going to cause some problems for anyone who wants to say that it is sinful in all cases.
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Cannibalism is wrong because it requires a dead human in order to make it so. Killing is against God. Now say you came upon a dead body in the middle of the road, and you were hungry. What is your first instinct? To eat the body? No! Your first reactions are disgust, fear, sadness. Cannibalism does not need to be condemned by religion or rationalization, because it is already condemned by human nature. People will not naturally eat other people, and even if they have to it is truly revolting to them (unless them have been brainwashed to think it is okay, as in the instance of tribal societies).
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Kris_J said:
"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE !!!!!"
-- sorry, just started spontaneously channelin' Charlton Heston there...
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