Posted on 12/01/2014 1:05:33 PM PST by Enza Ferreri
Edited on 12/01/2014 6:22:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
We rightly criticise Islam, but in doing so we must not forget the barbarism of some other non-Christian religions.
While, after the coming of Jesus, in the parts of the world that adopted Christianity animal sacrifices have disappeared, they are still practised elsewhere to this day.
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We are bad people if we do not respect their barbaric, savage ways, I am told.
They don’t bring it over here, as far as I know. There are worse actors on the world stage than India. They should be evangelized, but massive animal sacrifice is not the primary reason.
It is an animal. My values, and Catholic teaching as I understand it, is that we can kill animals all we want to serve our purposes. We can’t torture animals though. These values are very biblical. I think those who advocate for no animal sacrifice are nothing more than pagans, or more charitably, misguided in their understanding of God’s will.
What animal equality campaigners have called …“Animal equality campaigners” regard all animals to be on human level (and conversely, that no human is above an animal in terms of rights), and blather about their strawman called “speciesism”, which focuses on human ownership of animals for food and work and equates it to racism and human slavery.
Quite a culture. Did the local PETA organization complain?
If they’re killing buffaloes, they’re not really mainstream Hindu, and therefore this criticism does not apply to that religion.
That’s a Biblical point of view.
Your “animal rights campaigners” want to distort the meanings of Proverbs 12:10 and Ecclesiastes 3:19 though, and take them utterly out of context.
I saw this and much worse living there in 2012 in the slums.
Animal sacrifices are every day depending on the demands of the 300 million official major gods they worship.
What is worse is the way the Hindus beat and slaughter Christians. A mob will rend apart a person and beat them with poles and stones in a heartbeat. Sometimes simply because they are accused of a bogus charge because they are hated.
Living there changed my entire view of everything.
We have no idea as Americans by and large, how good we have it here.
But we are slowly turning into the very system that gives rise to what I saw over there: a caste system that makes institutionalized persecution, legal - and a people who hate truth - and consider swindling and theft an attribute of cleverness.
I suspect that those animals are all eaten. There are a lot of hungry people in India.
As for suffering, I doubt that there is much. Most farmers know how to butcher animals. The idea that you need to be a “professional” in order to do anything competently, is a fabrication of the last 60 years, and then only in the wealthy western world.
There is a bit of a problem in Judaism as well. That is, when and if a new temple is rebuilt, it must be sanctified with animal sacrifice.
Already there are loud and angry disputes among Jews between a growing number of vegetarians and animal rights activists, and those who endorse Shechita (the slaughtering of mammals and birds for food, today (in English) used to describe “kosher slaughter.”)
To go beyond that into ritual sacrifice in debate really causes knock-down-drag-outs.
I have the kukri knife I bought and my family used to chop the head off a goat.
I assure you, it's one swift slice, and the head is off.
My Nepali father was a policeman. They slaughtered dozens of goats and water buffalo to their police vehicles. Every single head came off in one chop. The animal never experience a thing for more than the slightest fraction of a second.
Here's the head of the goat we ate:
If that's true I have no problems with it as long as the kill is humane. But if the meat is going to waste then it verges on criminal. Better to send US the meat so we can send it to the homeless shelters.
I can assure you that not a single bit of any animal is wasted. Those folks rarely eat meat, and any killed critter will be completely eaten.
One clean stroke, and that's a dead water buffalo. Then, they eat it all. Completely. Like you or I would a deer shot in the season.
While barbaric, it is nowhere near as barbaric as slitting the throats of children for saying that they “love Jesus,” as was recently done by ISIS. So yeah, this is not real high on my list of things to worry about...
Do you realize that the head chopping is extremely quick and the animal doesn’t suffer?
Do you realize that the people of Nepal eat virtually no meat, so that the unusual ritual slaughter is nothing (numbers-wise) to the use of meat in America?
Do you realize that Kosher slaughter is worse, by hanging the animal upside down and slitting its throat? And I have kept kosher. That rule was promulgated by G-d to help alleviate the animal’s suffering, but it is surely worse than an incredibly swift decapitation.
Have you been there? Have you seen it?
Methinks you’re digging too hard for a controversy.
No meat goes to waste. I’ve been there to see it.
And there's the money quote. PETA said so. So you had better all agree or you're mean.
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