Wicca Teachings: Sunday Is Bar B Q Time

Apparently, we can thank the OT for the concept of the barbecue -

Selected phrases from the following:

http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html

Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

Exodus 20:24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

Exodus 24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

(24:5-8)"And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people."

24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Exodus 29 consists of rituals, mostly consisting of chopping up different animals, blood and bits and whatnot, and burning them for a 'Sweet savor'

Directly from the aforementioned source:

"God gives detailed instructions for performing ritualistic animal sacrifices. such bloody rituals must be important to God, judging from the number of times that he repeats their instructions. Indeed the entire first nine chapters of Leviticus can be summarized as follows: Get an animal, kill it, sprinkle the blood around, cut the dead animal into pieces, and burn it for a "sweet savor unto the Lord." Chapters 1 - 9"

Numbers:

"# God gives more instructions for the ritualistic killing of animals. The smell of burning flesh is "a sweet savour unto the Lord." 15:3, 13-14, 24"

"God describes once again the procedure for ritualistic animal sacrifices. such rituals must be extremely important to God, since he makes their performance a "statute" and "covenant" forever. 18:17-19"

"In these chapters, God provides ridiculously detailed instructions for the ritualistic sacrifice of animals. The burning of their dead bodies smells great to God. Eleven times in these two chapters God says that they are to him a "sweet savour." 28 - 29"

A few things strike me as odd:

* If a thousand years are as one day (psalms 90:4), how on earth is anything being burnt for a day (or less) going to even have any impact on YHVH, and

* Since said creator exists OUTSIDE the realm of the laws of physics, how would cooking up a few 'bullock steaks' make any difference whatsoever?