[COUNTrecount]

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” the president wrote. “Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-—“Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam...”——

“Brand” is a telling word choice. Most people would use the word, “sect” or “branch.”

He obviously thinks of religion in secular terms. The term reflects typically modern, religious reductionism.

[a fool in paradise]

Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

This is why (truthfully) one of the imam at the old "ask the imam" website said that it was immoral to eat pork, you'd be "adulterous" like a pig.

Obsessive compulsive disorder writ large and branded as a religion.

[CH3CN]

Snake isn’t tough at all. It’s like frog legs.

[Texas Eagle]

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

Yeah, well, he must've eaten a lot of cat as a youngster because he's a big.......I can't say it.