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[Joe Bloe]

Kapparot is a Jewish ritual practiced on the eve of Yom Kippur. The person swings a live chicken over their head three times and all their sins travel into the chicken.

But how do they stop the the sins getting back into the human? Simple. They kill the chicken!

If they had any brains at all, they would admit that it is a nonsensical ritual, which has become something of a tradition, and nobody has the courage to break with tradition. But no ... the clown in this video tries to turn the farce into something good and noble by explaining that the dead chickens are then fed to the poor and needy - and not just any old poor and needy, but the poor and needy who survived the holocaust!

He wouldn't admit it, but he is using the holocaust to divert attention away from the utter idiocy of his stupid belief. Probably the most outrageous use of emotional blackmail I have ever seen. In effect he is saying, "You can't laugh at the chicken swinging Jews because that would mean you are laughing at the holocaust survivors who gain a benefit from the dopey practice."

[Ungodly]

So you are suggesting that the practice of swinging a live chicken over your head in order to achieve a supernatural benefit in a fictional realm seems a bit odd?

Since it is a religious ritual the killing at the end seems to fit expectations. I wonder if vegan Jews use a Tofurkey instead? If so, what do you have to do to a Tofurkey to kill it?

One might think I'd be chowing down on Tofurkey, but it contains concentrated wheat protein (gluten) so it would make me violently ill. The vast majority of the meat alternatives marketed to vegetarians have wheat gluten as a major ingredient.

But back to the important work of equal opportunity ridicule of all religions.

Laughing at people swinging domesticated birds over their heads for superstitious reasons does not equate with being indifferent about or supporting genocide.

When you do something that is stupid, you're being stupid.

[Great Ape]

Kapparot is a Jewish ritual practiced on the eve of Yom Kippur. The person swings a live chicken over their head three times and all their sins travel into the chicken.

That is a silly religious practice. Why are the religious always trying to put their sins on some other poor creature? They committed the sins, they should live with them. Just like Catholic confession. Why does confessing your sins, absolve you of them? Makes no sense to me.


For some reason when I read this, the first thing that popped into my head was, "sin eaters." Probably because like the poor people who were hired as sin eaters, who took on the sins of the deceased, so too did the poor chickens.

Sin eaters and the custom of sin eating seem to come from Wales. Early descriptions of the ritual all mention the bread eaten over the corpse, as well as the payment of sixpence to the person assuming the sins of the dead. Below are two 19th century accounts of sin eaters.

"In the county of Hereford was an old custom at funerals to hire poor people, who were to take upon them all the sins of the party deceased, and were called sin-eaters. One of them, I remember, lived in a cottage on Ross high-way. The manner was thus: when the corpse was brought out of the house, and laid on the bier, a loaf of bread was delivered to the sin-eater over the corpse, as also a mazar-bowl (a gossip's bowl of maple) full of beer, which he was to drink up, and sixpence in money; in consequence whereof, he took upon him, ipso facto, all the sins of the defunct, and freed him or her from walking after they were dead.

In some part of Wales a very extraordinary rite was observed. "When a person died, the friends sent for the sin-eater of the district, who on his arrival places a piece of salt on the breast of the defunct, and upon the salt a piece of bread. He then muttered an incantation over the bread, which he finally ate; thereby eating up all the sins of the deceased. This done, he received the fee of two shillings and sixpence, and vanished as quickly as possible from the general gaze; for as it was believed that he really appropriated to his own use and behoof the sins of all those over whom he performed the above ceremony, he was utterly detested in the neighbourhood -- regarded as a mere Pariah -- as one irremediably lost."

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Edited by Great Ape, 24 June 2012 - 08:48 AM.

[Great Ape]

Since it is a religious ritual the killing at the end seems to fit expectations. I wonder if vegan Jews use a Tofurkey instead? If so, what do you have to do to a Tofurkey to kill it?

Well, first you must bring the Tofurkey to life, since it's never been alive. I suggest electrical stimulation much like you see in the old Frankenstein movies. Then we get a nice pitchfork mob together, making sure a mob member is carrying fire. The Frankenstein monster always hated fire so too should Franken-turkey. (Mobs always carry torches and pitchforks in Frankenstein movies so we're good)

Then you basically pitchfork and beat said turkey till tenderized, then torch it with fire till it is well cooked. Serve with stuffing, your favorite side dishes, mashed potatoes and gravy. Enjoy!

Edited by Great Ape, 24 June 2012 - 05:39 PM.

[Ungodly]

Poor little tofurkey, but yeah, hand me that pitchfork!

Nice artwork.