Paul’s Chain Letter to the Corinthians
“Make 5 copies of this letter and send them to your Top 5 friends. Do not break the chain. Lazarus broke a chain letter and look what happened to him!”
And for a cool horror tale twist on that:
“The wife of Lazarus broke the chain and a zombie came to her house!”
I don’t think that the passage means that parents will specifically eat their own children. God’s addressing a nation, not a bunch of individual parents. He’s not saying, “Joe and Martha Hittite* are going to put little Timmy Hittite into a pot,” he’s saying, “The nation of the Hittites will be forced to eat their own war dead,” which includes most of their younger generations.
*Or who ever Israel is at war with in that passage
This is the Deuteronomy passage. This seems very specific that it is about Joe & Martha eating little Timmy, not just generic younger generations of war dead:
Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you.
This has turned into a massive sidetrack on the exegesis of the precise meaning of this stuff about cannibalism. I don’t know, perhaps there’s some trope from this era about eating your own children being a standard metaphor for the ultimate awful fate. I just find it especially bizarre and creepy.
It was a time before siege weaponry but after the invention of walls, which means you take a city by starving the occupants out.
~Max
It seems fairly clear reading in context (i.e., not just one verse) that this is not advocating long pig consumption, but rather a warning.
We’ve done this to death, not again please. Read the thread.
I did read the thread.
Then why say exactly the same thing over again? I already responded, and agreed that “advocated” was not the best word.
Nah, edited because, well, to Hell with it. 
Okay - I should have said “has a bizarre and creepily specific fascination with” and “uses as a specific punishment imposed on people”. I’m not sure there’s a single word that captures that, is there? I concede (once again) that I hastily and carelessly used the word “advocates”. How about we drop this now?
No problem! (That’s also why I edited that response out before your last post.)
Do you want Marcionites? Because that’s how you get Marcionites.
I vaguely recall some comedian saying to the effect, “The God of the New Testament isn’t a different God from the Old Testament; He’s just mellowed out some now that He’s had a child”.
I apologize; it was not meant to be an antisemitic poke but rather how many Christians find the Bible the inerrant word of God and haven’t even hand-waved the Old Testament away as no longer relevant. In fact, the God hates fags faction cherry-picks passages from the OT with a sprinkling from Peter.
Note: Do not make the same mistake I did, and think that “Cathar” refers to the Cathar.
Is a native of Cathar a Catheter?
Slithy Tove: “Just swallow the communion wafer. If it sticks to the roof of your mouth, don’t use your finger! Wait…what are you doing? YOU’RE CHEWING JESUS!”
Those of you not raised Catholic think he’s joking.
Yeah, I was shocked the first time a priest said “it’s bread, of course you can chew it”.
I’ve never received Catholic communion – what are you supposed to do? Let it melt or something? Swallow it whole?