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7/1/2009
6:32:27 pm EDT
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Grisly Finds At Staten Island Park Fuel Speculation Of Cult Activity
Author: Staten Island Advance Source: Staten Island Advance
Title: GRISLY FINDS AT STATEN ISLAND PARK FUEL SPECULATION OF CULT ACTIVITY
For the past two days, visitors to a park in Staten Island's Fort Wadsworth section have stumbled upon a gory mystery -- a mutilated animal, possibly a dog or a goat, wrapped in a white sheet.
Parkgoers found two such animals in Von Briesen Park yesterday and this morning, city Parks Department officials confirmed.
The discovery has sparked speculation of ritual sacrifice and cult activity, and has led one Port Richmond woman to douse part of the ground where one animal was found with holy water, in an attempt to ward off what she believes is an evil presence.
Several alluded to Santeria, which blends elements of Yoruba, an African religion, with Catholicism and involves animal sacrifice in some of its rituals.
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| Once Again | Jul 2nd. at 10:36:35 am EDT
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Panthea Ge (T-Town, Michigan) - Email Me
the only fact in this article is that there were two dead goats in the park. The rest is nutjob speculation and emotional outbursts based on spectators worldviews. Either the writer doesn't have two brain cells to rub together, or they think it of their readers.
And did anyone notice how the one chanted "evil, evil, evil!" like Mermaid Man from SpongeBob Squarepants?
Very funny!
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| Funny | Jul 2nd. at 8:31:58 am EDT
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Dynnys Derwydd (Lubbock, Texas) - Email Me
I've never heard of practioners of Santeria or Voudon mutilating dogs, cats or any such animal. Animals sacrificed in certain ceremonies are done so quickly and humanely as possible, and the meat is often consumed as in one big barbecue.
Three sad facts:
Ignorant people always jump to the wrong conclusion.
The so-called "experts" in the Occult used by various police forces -- local, state, federal -- are experts in nothing.
The media hypes everything to the point you no longer can trust their word on anything. (And I include CNN, MSNBC and FOX News.)
Gnothi Seauton
honi soit qui mal y pense,
Dynnys Derwydd
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| The Barber Shop Vs. Catching Criminals Of Concern | Jul 2nd. at 8:02:58 am EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
It's about time journalism doesn't rely on rumors and fear mongering along the lines of Forces of Good™ vs. The Forces of Evil™, with evil is portrayed as any minority religion people want to stay stubbornly purposefully ignorant about...despite the fact that even a kid could look up these religions and find that the animals are humanely sacrificed and then consumed, not mutilated and left disrepsectfully and for shock value.
If animals were really mutilated and killed, authorities are looking for a very sick individual or individuals likely to abuse people in some way, or worse. They better drop maligning minority religions and stay focused on the task then.
The sad thing is that if journalists, authorities, and officials keep harping that this is what evil sick messed up people do, they mutilate and kill animals during "sacrifices," then some unstable violent individuals just might oblige them in the described manner, rather than really learn and practice Santeria or any other "suspect," heh, religion. That's called the Barber Shop Effect (if you keep going to the Barber Shop, you just might buy a haircut) .
Let's hope that's not the case here. But it's possible. Not that it changes the fact that sickos who murder animals in such a manner are likely to abuse people too, and that's what this is really all about. Not religion.
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| Lovely, Just Lovely | Jul 2nd. at 2:37:10 am EDT
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
I just love how these kinds of articles concentrate on the fact that robes are worn for "rituals", and how it's ***always*** "ritual sacrifice" when a mutilated animal is found in a park.
Oh, and that woman who is a vegetarian, so this "affects her greatly". I wonder, as a vegetarian -- and I assume a Christian, as well, how "greatly" does the mutilation of young people in war affect her? How does the starving and malnutrition of millions of innocent children right here in the U.S.A. -- the Wealthiest Nation in the Entire World (supposedly) -- affect her?
Just how "non-evil" is it when people such as Bernie Madoff, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are allowed to bilk hundreds of thousands of people out of their life savings? Just how "Christian" -- and therefor "holy" -- is that sort of thing?
How about these reports on "ritualistic cult religions" start telling everyone about the rituals engaged in and the robes worn by Catholic priests, and the extremely ritualistic costumes worn by the Grand Wizard of the entire Catholic Church -- the Pope? Ritual is ritual, after all, no matter which religious ritual is being engaged in.
Oh, and animal sacrifice? It's THE required form of sacrifice in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible...which just happens to also be the Holy book of the Jewish religion, the Torah...and as far as I know, the requirement of ritual animal sacrifice was never directly and explicitly removed by "Jesus" (or "Yeshua", or whatever name he's known by) -- so why is it so "evil" and "immoral" if a pagan does it?
Remember, the Christian God finds burnt animal flesh to have a pleasing odor, and the animal MUST be disemboweled and its "inwards" burnt on the altar. The Christian God accepts very few other kinds of animal sacrifice. Look it all up in Leviticus.........
--nasionnaich
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| Ugh | Jul 1st. at 11:38:41 pm EDT
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Ruby Tuesday (Staten Island, New York) - Email Me
I really hate living in Staten Island sometimes. The only thing I hate more is the fact that the news (especially out here, it seems) always f***ing jumps on the "Wicca/Paganism/Santeria/Voodoo/etc. is the culprit" bandwagon before exploring any other alternatives like, say, messed up sociopathic teenagers out for cheap thrills.
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