For theists, what animals have you sacraficed to your God? Bull, goat? What religion are you?

Question

Did it make a pleasing smell for your God?

Answer 1

I am a vegetarian. I sacrificed my beastly desires.God is pleased.He made me healthy and wealthy.May be wise.

Answer 2

Sacrifice in Islam

An animal sacrifice in Arabic is called Qurban (قُرْبَان) . However this word has a pagan connotation in some places (however, in India, the word qurbani is used for Islamic animal sacrifice).

In the Islamic context an animal sacrifice is usually referred to as Udhiyah (أُضْحِيَّة) meaning sacrifice. Udhiyah, as a ritual, is offered only in Eid ul-Adha.

The Muslims say that this has nothing to do with blood and gore (Qur'an 22:37: "It is not their meat nor their blood, that reaches Allah. it is your piety that reaches Him...").

The sacrifice is done to help the poor, and in remembrance of Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son (according to the Muslims, Ishmael) at God's command.

The sacrificial animal may be a lamb, a sheep, a goat, a camel or a cow. The animal must be healthy and conscious.

The Islamic system of slaughter is called Dhabĥ (ذَبْحٌ); In the name of Allah, the throat and both jugular veins are cut quickly with a sharp knife. Neither the spinal cord is to be severed nor the neck bone broken until after the animal has ceased to move, in fear that pain may be caused.

Other forms of slaughter such as blugdeoning, electrocution, and driving of a spike through the animals cranium are explicitly forbidden.

The reasoning behind invoking the name of the creator at the moment of sacrifice is stated by some to be the equivalent of acknowledging the right of that creator over all created things, as such this invocation is then a type of permission granted to the one performing the sacrifice and endows a sense of gratitude even prior to partaking in the meat of the animal.

The meat is generally distributed to relatives and the needy, although it may, depending upon purpose and occasion, be consumed by the person himself.

All animals must be sacrificed in the above mentioned manner, regardless of whether the meat is for religious commeration or personal consumption. This meat is then considered Halal and hence fit for consumption.

As for me, I am a Muslim and my religion is Islam.

Answer 3

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Theism is the belief in one or more personal deities. More specifically it may also mean the belief that God/god(s) is immanent in the world, yet transcends it.

The term is attested in English from 1678, and was probably coined to contrast with atheism, a term that is attested from ca. 1587 (see the etymology section of atheism for details).

Views about the existence of deities are commonly divided into these categories:

Nontheism: The absence of clearly identified belief in any deity
Atheism: It has two distinct, commonly used meanings:
Strong atheism: The belief that no deity exists.
Weak atheism: An absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Agnosticism: The belief that the existence of God or gods is unknown and/or inherently unknowable.
Strong agnosticism: The view that the question of the existence of deities is inherently unknowable or meaningless. "It is impossible to say whether or not there is a God"
Weak agnosticism: The view that the question of the existence of deities is currently unknown, but not inherently unknowable. "For now, we cannot know. Maybe if we find evidence of God…"
Nontheistic religions:
Taoism
Confucianism
Zen Buddhism
Deism: The doctrine that a deity created nature but does not interact with it. This view emphasizes the deity's transcendence.
Theism (second definition): The doctrine God(s) is immanent in the world, yet transcends it:
Polytheism: The belief that there is more than one deity.
Polytheism proper: The belief there is a distinct pantheon of distinct deities which all are to be worshipped
Animism: The belief there are immense amount of deities and spirits, which are to be placated and worshipped.
Monolatry: The belief that there may be more than one deity, but only one should be worshipped.
Henotheism: The belief that there may be more than one deity, but one is supreme.
Kathenotheism: The belief that there is more than one deity, but only one deity at a time should be worshipped. Each is supreme in turn.
Monotheism: The belief that there is only one deity.
Inclusive monotheism: The belief that there is only one deity, and that all other claimed deities are just different names for it.
Exclusive monotheism: The belief that there is only one deity, and that all other claimed deities are false and distinct from it, either invented, demonic, or simply incorrect.
Panentheism: The belief that the universe is entirely contained within a deity that is greater than just the universe.
Pantheism: The belief that the universe is identical to a deity.
Within polytheism there are hard and soft varieties. Hard polytheism views the gods as being distinct and separate beings, while soft polytheism views the gods as being subsumed into a greater whole. Most forms of Hinduism serve as examples of soft polytheism.

The Hindu denomination of Smartism serves as an example of inclusive monotheism. Most Abrahamic religions, and the Hindu denomination of Vaishnavism, which regards the worship of anyone other than Vishnu incorrect, serve as examples of exclusive monotheism.

These belief labels are often not as rigid in the literature and in practice as this classification scheme may suggest. For instance, classical Christianity asserts the existence of "lesser" deities such as angels and demons, causing some to argue that the belief system is properly a form of henotheistic polytheism. Most Christians, however, would resist being labeled as polytheists.

Finally, the distinction can be made between belief in the existence of deities, and beliefs about their characteristics, or the belief in a deity as the summum bonum: see eutheism and dystheism.

Typical theistic religions are Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Saivism, Vaishnavism, Bahá'í, and Sikhism.


I am Wiccan and it would go against its principals to kill a living being.

Answer 4

Do you know what sacrifices mean to God? Before long ago after Adam and Eve sinned God told them that they had to sacrifice a sheep, goat, dove, food, etc, and they all had to be clean animals without any sickness or disability. It was a way for people to ask forgiveness from God, and God would forgive him. Unfortunately for them it was permanent, but the ultimate sacrifice is permanent. The sacrifices also were to represent the ultimate sacrifice who was Jesus because he was perfect and shed his blood, so that our sins could be forgiven.

Answer 5

Most religions do not require animal sacrifices anymore. I do feel that we do need to make sacrifices depending on what is important to you and your life. If you are a farmer, you can sacrifice crops or livestock. But for a stock broker money would be more fitting.

By the way I am Pagan and studying Ecclectic Shamanism.

Answer 6

To become theists one do not have to sacrifice animals to god. In fact sacrificing animal is not at all a sacrifice. The man behind it actually enjoying. The poor animal is sacrificing. These people are not theist and equal to a murderer.

Answer 7

I don't' sacrifice any animals. Do I make offerings to my Gods? Yes. I am Kemetic Orthodoxy and I do go to the store and get steaks and stuff to offer to Sekhmet. Sekhmet is a Lioness so I offer raw meat. I buy it at the store and after offering it we cook it and eat it. It is a sin to waste an offering. I also offer alcohol and POM juice and sometimes other red fruits. I also offer things that can not be eaten but are nice to look at.

Answer 8

I do enjoy walking through a christian neighborhood and smelling the sweet savor being offered up unto the Lord.

Smells like BBQ.

Answer 9

Not all theists sacrifice living creatures to their God.

Answer 10

We sacrifice the snack fairy and live until over 100 years old converting the atheist online.



http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org

Answer 11

I have not sacrificed any animals to God, because when Jesus died on the cross the act of sacrificing animals was no longer "needed".