Today's encounters with religion

[dreamer_easy]

1. A flier slipped under the door asking: "Would you like the know the Truth?" Indeed, but as they've already managed to break the LHC, we'll have to continue waiting.

2. It was impossible not to overhear one Catholic student explaining the significance of the first Passover to another. The captive Hebrews smeared lamb's blood on their doorways because the Egyptians worshipped a lamb god. The Nile was turned to blood because the Egyptians worshipped the Nile as the source of life, and blood symbolises life. (Uh... OK, maybe I didn't quite get all of that bit.) Plus each of the ten plagues was a similarly symbolic assault on the "top ten" Egyptian gods. Alas, at that point I had to depart; it would've been interesting to hear which god the guy reckoned went with each plague. With literally thousands of deities to choose from, it shouldn't be too hard to find a few likely candidates... unless you're looking for a lamb god.

Comments

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

1. What's the LHC? One hopes it's some law intended to prevent obnoxious but well-meaning idiots from shoving religion under your door...

2. It makes almost as much sense as an omnipresent god who needed a reminder of where his chosen people lived. :)

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Large Hadrosaur Hadron Collider.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Oh, *that* LHC. One never knows what strange abbreviations will show up in Kate's blog. :)

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

"What's the LHC? "

The Left-Handed Chicken. She's writing a sequel to "Hummer", at last! =:o}

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Ironically, it was a Jewish demigod who was later referred to as the Lamb...

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

LOL! My thought exactly . . .

[thegameiam.livejournal.com]

minor clarification: the individual in question personally identified as Jewish, but is not considered a demigod in the Jewish religion.

Off topic, but we were discussing this on Angriest's blog

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

You probably already know about these.

http://davidtennant.albumpost.com/album871

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

There was a ram God in ancient Egypt wasn't there?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there were a couple of gods associated with the ram.

Ram lamb ram a lamb a ding dong!