Old King Herod Had a Slaughterhouse
Has anyone ever seen a Christian visual representations of the temple(s) that actually depicted an animal being slaughtered? It was a slaughterhouse; why have we erased that? Maybe because we see ourselves as the temple and then we’d have to see that we are slaughterhouses too. Tombs are where you put dead bodies. We are literally whitewashed tombs filled with dead bodies after the shedding of innocent blood. I’m just sayin’.
More related randomness. My local paper did a week long series this past year on a chicken processing plant in my area. The first issue claimed it would walk us through the process … every step of the way. The thing is that they went from pictures of the chickens arriving in crates on trucks to chickens already slaughtered. Funny. They seemed to have left out the part where the chickens actually die. That’s what I’m talking about. Why are we so afraid of seeing that? Might it prick our delicate sensibilities? Seriously – think about this for a few minutes. There were huge pictures of the scarred hands of the plant workers, descriptions of the injuries they sustain. We can see that – but not the moment of death for the animal. Check it out and see what you think.
