Religion
Fighting chickens of various breeds have long existed as evidenced by an Indus seal from Mohenjo-daro with an inscription of the Indus ideogram for "city" and a pair of cocks, inferring that the city's original name meaning was "the city of the cock". Fighting cocks are roosters of "fighting spirit", or the will to persevere even when faced with difficult obstacles or opponents through seemingly limitless courage, while being a male chicken of various breeds and may also be known as a gamecock due to the alternate purpose and use of secular cockfighting, with the first use of that term, denoting use as to a “game”, a sport, pastime or entertainment, being in 1646.
Fighting chickens of a religious, spiritual or sacred cockfight are the vessels of religious and spiritual beliefs and exercise and are not to be confused with the blood sport of cockfighting or a secular cockfight between two roosters or fighting cocks.
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Famous quotes containing the word religion:
“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible of civilisation. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that their reformation must be worked, and that Missionaries of that description from [France] would avail more than those who should endeavor to tame them by precepts of religion or philosophy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“To sum up:
1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute.
2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics.”
—C.S. (Clive Staples)