Bill's Notes

So I watched the final of Survivor the other night. There was a sequence in which the four remaining contestants participated in the pagan sacrifice of a chicken. (They seem to like to go completely pagan on the show.)

One woman asked if they could eat the chicken, and they were told by the local witch doctors that no, they couldn't, it's a sacrifice. A few hours later they went back, took the chicken, and the three women ate it. Then they justified it to themselves, you know, that they'd honored the ceremony but that was a couple of hours ago, and now they wanted to eat the cooked chicken so it was all right. They even tempted the only man there, Raff, who to his credit refused to eat the meat sacrificed to idols, holding to the idea that it was a sacrifice and that's that.

It was like watching a replay of something out of the book of Kings. I don't think I'd ever seen a clearer example of why women shouldn't be priests. It wasn't so much the weakness in the face of hunger (understandable) that was objectionable, but the quick justification.