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This is so damned strange, I just have to put it up here.

Apocalypse Cow! In the most bizarre collaboration between the American Christian Right and ultraorthodox Jewish Zionists in Israel, Pentecostal minister and Georgia cattle farmer Clyde Lott has collaborated with the Temple Mount Institute of Jerusalem to breed a red heifer suitable for purifying the foundation of a rebuilt version of Solomon's Temple, which ultraorthodox Jews hope will lead to the coming of the Messiah. The problem is that the proposed site for the rebuilt temple is on the same site as the al-Aqsa mosque, the holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina. Some Zionist extremists in Israel have attempted to "solve" this problem by plotting to blow up the mosque, which doesn't exactly promote peace in the Middle East. And to think all of this could have been started by a cow that looks like it should have belonged in "the Horse of a Different Color" sequence in the Wizard of Oz!

..... cow of the new order.... four cowboys of the apocolypse....
WHERE'S THE BEEF

Seriously, the whole animal sacrifice thing is sort of the nice part about old testimate jews. Religion of the old days was about blood and power, plain and simple. Metaphorically, at least, the same is true today. Remember? The blood is the Life. There is a reason kosher slaughter involves draining the blood, and not just for health reasons.

Will I live to see the Temple rise again? Perhapse, out of the new shall arise the old... and out of the old, the even older.

Tonight is the End of Summer, the Feast of the Dead. Can you not think of anything more apropreate to be thinking?