What's with all this cannibalism and/or dismemberment?

[Red Green]

What's with all this cannibalism and/or dismemberment?

I dunno, maybe it's that it tastes like chicken?

[Dogpatch]

I've tasted croc, zebras, antelope and other weird dishes but I think I'll pass on monkey meat

[mindyrbusiness]

Jer 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

[Julian]

Jer 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

What is the context for the meaning of that passage? Is it God who is making this happen?

[CrunchyCon]

Jer 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

What is the context for the meaning of that passage? Is it God who is making this happen?

Here's the passage in context:

1 Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the [a] senior priests. 2 Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you, 3 and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned [b]sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent 5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My [c]mind; 6 therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter. 7 I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth. 8 I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its [d]disasters. 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’

Sounds to me like the context is abortion and worship of false gods.

[FiscalConservative]

Albert Fish was eating children in the 20s, cannibalism and dismemberment aren't a new thing at all.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/pe ... basis.html

[Edward Kennedy]

Albert Fish was eating children in the 20s, cannibalism and dismemberment aren't a new thing at all.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/pe ... basis.html

Stupid comment...cannibalism goes back eons, so what?

[Julian]

What's with all this cannibalism and/or dismemberment?

I dunno, maybe it's that it tastes like chicken?

You haven't checked the price of groceries lately, have you.

[Kate Shaw]

It's getting harder and harder to get anybody to pay attention to Generation Prime Time; two generations of brats groomed to be "leaders" and nobody wants to be led.

Have you watched a toddler whose mommy is ignoring him spiral more and more out of control?

That's what you are seeing.

[RedDog]

[Julian]

Brazilian cannibals charged with eating women

Three Brazilians have been charged with murdering three women and eating their flesh as part of a cannibalistic cult in which they sought to purify their souls and control population growth, according to police.

0:08AM BST 06 Jun 2012

Brazilian Authorities on Tuesday brought the charges against the three - a married couple and a woman - accusing them of murdering three women between the ages of 17 and 31 between 2008 and 2012 in the northeast Pernambuco state.

"The accused admitted to consuming the flesh of their victims," police spokesman Paulo Berenguer told reporters, adding that investigators were looking into whether they were involved in the deaths of four other people.

He added that the three suspects - who each face a maximum sentence of 30 years in jail - claimed to be part of a cult called "El Cartel" and said they had killed in order to rein in population growth.

"Their modus operandi was to select victims with impure lives and approach them with offers of employment before killing them," Berenguer said.

Police identified the accused as Jorge da Silveira and Isabel Pires, a married couple in their early 50s, and 25-year-old Bruna da Silva.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... women.html