2007-01-05 03:46:05 · 9 answers · asked by Enchy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think you're referring to the Egyptians, who had the cat Goddess Bastet (I love Bastet, she is one of my favorite deities). Cats were not treated like saints - they were DEMIGODS, much more important. This is because Egypt was an agrarian society and cats kept mice out of the graineries, and also helped to prevent the spread of disease (mice, rats, and other rodents are notorious disease spreaders). The Egyptians recognized the incredible value of cats and treated them appropriately. In Egyptian society, when one of your cats died you went into deep morning - you shaved your eyebrows - and you'd better hope that if the cat died under mysterious circumstances the investigation ruled out foul play, because the pentalty for killing a cat, a DEMIGOD, was death.
Personally, I think cats are the most magickal of all creatures and I hold them as Divine.
)O(
2007-01-05 04:32:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pope (Innocent VIII ) ordered cats to be burned at the stake. The catholic church burned live cats by the millions.
In Roman Catholic France, baskets of live cats were annually burnt on St. John's Day in hilltop bonfires in the presence of the local mayor. This rite was still practiced at the end of the seventeenth century.
Every year a festival was held at Metz . The city fathers go in solemn process into the main square, where a number of cats are exhibited in a cage. This is hung over a bonfire which priests then set alight with great ceremony. When they heard the frightful shrieks of the cats, the people believed that they are once more torturing an old witch who, it is said, once turned herself into a cat when she was about to be burned.
2007-01-05 04:08:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you're talking about ancient Egyptians, then beacuse the thought of cats as holy, but other than that, no one treats cats as saints.
2007-01-05 03:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you not met any cats? =0)
2007-01-05 03:47:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean gods by the Egyptians? At least they exist.
2007-01-05 03:48:26 · answer #5 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they act like they are above it all.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-01-05 03:54:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the Holy Bible and you will find that this is a lie.
2007-01-05 03:49:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not by me i just kick em
2007-01-05 03:48:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
BECAUSE THEY ARE NICE
2007-01-05 03:55:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋