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:
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism—at least in the sense of this work—is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.”
—Ludwig Feuerbach (1804–1872)
“When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.”
—Olympia Brown (1835–1900)
“But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonised, the religion cannot be healthy?”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)