What are your thoughts on animal sacrifice? Is it something you are against? Why? As long as it is carried out humanely, do you think it is okay for people to worship their diety(s) how they choose? Isn't animal sacrifice included in freedom of worship?
Just a note before anyone mentions Satanism, vast majority of Satanists DO NOT practice animal sacrifice. Neither do Wiccans. Some religions such as Santeria and Vodoun, however, do. Even some Hebrews practiced animal sacrifice back in the day. Usually, the animal is killed humanely, the blood offered to their diety(s), and the meat is cooked and eaten (this may vary with tradition, but the animal is almost always killed humanely). How different is that from say, killing your own chicken and cleaning and cooking it yourself? They just add the aspect of religious worship to it.
No, this is not something I would choose to incorperate in my own religious beliefs, I was just curious to what others thoughts were.
2007-11-01 08:51:32 · 10 answers · asked by Citrine Dream 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
jalyn: Why?
Like I said, how is it different from slaughtering and eating your own animal, be it something you hunted or something you raised as livestock? All animal sacrifice does is add the aspect of worship to that.
Even if it is something you would not do yourself, do you think other people should be able to choose to worship that way?
2007-11-01 09:22:45 · update #1
I have no reason to do it personally, but I respect the rights of others who worship in a paradigm much different than my own. My gods do not desire blood, but that doesn't mean none of them do, and it doesn't mean that blood can't have powerful meaning within certain faiths. I would like for the killing to be done humanely, but as I have nothing against killing animals for food I can't come up with a good argument why people can't kill animals for religious needs.
2007-11-01 12:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The most disturbing aspect of Yahweh’s humanoid personality, however, is his blood-lust. The smell of burning flesh is a ‘sweet savour unto the lord’ – so sweet, in fact, that the phrase appears in the Old Testament no fewer than twenty-three times. The butchery demanded by god is truly monumental. Believers are required to sacrifice two lambs day-by-day continuously – and that’s just for starters! Just as well Yahweh had several thousand priests to help him trough through the banquet!
Livestock bears the brunt of god’s appetite but humans could so easily get the chop from the big guy. God kills Uzzah for simply steadying the tumbling Ark (1Chronicles 13.9,10). Poor Onan was zapped for using the withdrawal method of birth control (Genesis 38.10). But such isolated vindictiveness palls in comparison with the mass killings of the Lord. When the autocratic Moses faces a rebellion led by Korah, God uses an earthquake and fire to consume two hundred and fifty rebels. When indignant sympathizers protest at the injustice, God wipes out another fourteen thousand seven hundred with a plague (Numbers 16). What a guy!
In Joshua’s (supposed) wars of conquest, God gets right in there. He throws down ‘great stones from heaven’ (Joshua 10.11) and scores a better body-count than his Israelites with mere swords. When the Lord gets up a real head of steam the slaughter reaches a truly epic scale. For merely looking into his Ark, Yahweh wipes out fifty thousand and seventy unfortunate men of Bethshemesh (1 Samuel 6.19). When King David slips up and orders a national census, an enraged God zaps seventy thousand.
Quite apart from the celestial superman’s own killing, he animates his favourites into wiping out whole cities and nations. Jericho, Sodom, Gomorrah, Ai, Makkedah, Libnah etc., etc., are ‘smote and consumed’ – men, women, young, old, ox, sheep and ***!
‘You shall annihilate them - Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Jebusites – as Yahweh your God commanded you.’
(Deuteronomy 20.11,18)
In the largest single god-inspired massacre in the Bible, one million Ethiopians are slaughtered! (2 Chronicles 14).
But then we have been warned:
‘The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.’
(Exodus 15.3)
2007-11-01 15:59:17 · answer #2 · answered by H.I. of the H.I. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I am against it.
However, there are no laws against killing animals for food, fur, leather, etc, and people do this all the time, so I see animal sacrifice as no different.
Some people might say that killing animals for food and fur serves a purpose (to feed and to clothe us), but it is unnecessary in this day and age given that there are so many other options available to us. No one needs to wear a fur coat (I'm talking about industrialized nations with temperate climates, not Eskimos) and no one needs to eat meat.
2007-11-01 15:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by squirrely 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Killing the non-human animal humanely and eating it is fine, using their blood then for the prospect of religious ceremony is perfectly fine as well. What I'm against is the sacrifice of non-human animals for the direct reason of worship.
We have animal welfare laws for that reason, and I hope they are thoroughly enforced.
2007-11-01 15:56:02 · answer #4 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm against eating and sacrificing living things. I love animals, and animals play a big role in our world
I'm wiccan.
2007-11-02 14:16:47 · answer #5 · answered by BlueLucario 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one whom may answer this would be Abraham but he is no longer with us for he was to sacrafice his only son ,and God choose to have a goat sacraficed instead. I myself dont like the idea of harming any living creature.
2007-11-01 15:57:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
How is it any different than praying to God before eating a meal?
2007-11-01 15:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by 2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thou shalt not kill! Why do you think God picked Abel's offering over Cain's?
2007-11-01 15:56:51 · answer #8 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I love burgers...
2007-11-01 15:57:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
think it is gross no i dont think its right at all.
2007-11-01 16:09:15 · answer #10 · answered by jalyn 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋