Religions that at some point
Sacrificed animals.
It was a predominant trend in the three major religions (Judaism, Muslim, Christianity) practiced today at some point in their history.
Why is it so unacceptable today? Is this animal rights or religious intolerance?
~MissApril
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hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck
>sheep is slaughtered to be then eaten by the familly. <
While there may be more ceremony than normal, wouldn't an animal be slaughtered then eaten usually? I don't they bleed it to death, per their dietary rules (like Kosher).
>Or we condemn all animal butchery and don't eat meat. Or we continue eating meat without minding about the killing practices.<
And forget that animals are animals and humans are humans....(to add to that thought)
In what way
hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck
Did I sound snippy in my last post? If so I didn't mean it to sound that way but as I re-read it, it might come across that way. Sorry if it did.
Anyway, to explain myself better ... where I come from it's a big deal to a lot of people to pack up the family and go over to a turkey farm and pick out your bird and the farmer kills and cleans your turkey for you. It's a big production, like going to pick out your Christmas tree and cutting it down. They do the hatchet job out of sight but it's still a big deal to some people ... getting all dressed up and gathering the family to go pick out your meal. It's not for me but but many people I know. Anyway, I was just reminded of it when I read your post.
hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck
>Did I sound snippy in my last post?<
Not at all! And I added the (just curious) so that I didn't sound snippy, but nothing is 100% expressible in written form...
Now that you say that (the whole story) it sounds like a ceremony and everything. Even though we lived on a farm, the cattle dogs never let fowl live at our house too long. We always bought our birds at the grocery. We did have our cattle butchered, but we didn't go and watch, etc. It wasn't fascinating. It was sustenance.
>We did have our cattle butchered, but we didn't go and watch, etc. It wasn't fascinating. It was sustenance.<
I think that animal sacrifices in those old time WERE about sustenance too, you sacrifice something precious to you to ask from the prosperity of your crops in order to survive.
Kosher is one thing, but I was referring to the muslim holiday that we call "bakrid" in India and that is called more generally "Eid al-Adha" here is a post about it on another board : http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-rlinterracia&msg=3822.1&ctx=128
In any case of religious sacrifices in history, it was never mentionned that the meat was discarded after the sacrificed but most likely distributed to the needy and poor or eaten by the preist themselves so it was not really lost. Human sacrifices where mostly practiced in really encient religion, and was often a handy way of terminating the life of a prisoneer or criminal...today there are country who still have death penalty and we just took an age old religious practice, and made it legal.
But back to animal sacrifices...the more I think about it, the less I can call those "barbaric", what we do today to cattle is way more babrbaric yet widley accepted as we claim we do it in the name of sustenance, but there is more waste now aday than there was even 100-200 years ago, plus we feed animal crap to make them fatter in order that the steak on one's plate look juicier at the default of being tastier. We live in an era where quatity primes over quality. And it seems the power of consummation is now the new religion, and how many animals are sacrificed each month on this altar?
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