{"id":995,"date":"2017-05-24T18:40:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T11:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/?p=995"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:44:38","slug":"blood-sacrifice-and-strawberry-fanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Blood Sacrifice and Strawberry Fanta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just read a fascinating article called, \u201cIn Thailand, blood sacrifice is out, Strawberry Fanta is in.\u00a0(https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2017-04-06\/thailand-blood-sacrifice-out-strawberry-fanta<\/a>) Most all Thai homes have a \u201cspirit house\u201d in which resident ghosts reside in order to protect a person\u2019s property and in exchange for this service are served a variety of fruits, sweet meats, rice, coconuts, but especially Strawberry Fanta. If you see a number of bottles displayed, then no doubt someone in the residence is asking for a particularly important favor. None of this comes from the teaching of the Buddha, but instead can be traced to original animistic beliefs.<\/p>\n

No one is sure why red is the preferred color, but in the article this explanation is given, \u201cBangkok office worker wishing for a raise isn\u2019t going to slaughter a chicken and lay it upon an altar outside her condo. But she may very well swing by the 7-Eleven and buy the next-best thing \u2014 blood-red Fanta \u2014 to placate her guardian angels.\u201d Some Buddhist take offense at this idea maintaining that these \u201cangels\u201d are strictly vegetarian and only demons would demand a blood sacrifice.\u00a0 With such world views you can imagine how difficult it is to communicate why it was necessary for Jesus to shed his precious blood in order to satisfy the just wrath of God against sinners (1 Pet 1:18-19). Pray that the Thai will see that \u201c \u2026 without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins\u201d (Heb. 9:22).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just read a fascinating article called, \u201cIn Thailand, blood sacrifice is out, Strawberry Fanta is in.\u00a0(https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2017-04-06\/thailand-blood-sacrifice-out-strawberry-fanta) Most all Thai homes have a \u201cspirit house\u201d in which resident ghosts reside in order to protect a person\u2019s property and in exchange … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiang-mai-orality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}