The slaughter of more than 5,000 buffaloes at the Gadhimai Hindu festival in Nepal has drawn global condemnation from animal charities.
Many more buffaloes and farm animals including chickens, goats and pigs are due to be killed as part of what is thought to be the world’s largest animal sacrifice ritual.
Devotees believe the event brings good luck and will encourage Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, to answer their wishes.
Several charities had worked to stop the slaughter – the first of its kind since an estimated 200,000 animals and birds were sacrificed in 2009 – but only succeeded in pressuring the Indian Government into stopping animals being transported across the border.
I sometimes receive criticism for always picking on Christianity, with comments such as "Why don't you ever go after Islam or Judaism? Why is it always Christians that you target?"
And of course the answer is because it is Christianity that is currently having the most negative impact on the politics and education in this country. Not to mention being used as an excuse for racism, sexism, and the manipulation of the ignorant.
Of course we must also remember that in America we slaughter far more than 5,000 cows a day simply to keep all of us in Big Macs. However that is done to appease OUR great god of capitalism, so of course that is to be excused out of hand.
Oh and before any of you start feeling superior because your religion does not participate in such primitive rituals you should remember that Judaism has a long history of animal sacrifice, and the only reason that Christians did not usually participate is because of the sacrifice of Jesus, and seriously who can top that?
So yeah this is pretty gross, but in a world where we are still cutting off bits of our genitalia as a sacrifice to one god or another, and murdering our fellow man due solely to almost imperceptible religious differences, it seems fairly hypocritical to get too worked up over this.
Though I have little doubt that many will.
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