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12/17/2008
10:58:01 am EST
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Butchered Chickens, Goats Victims Of Religious Sacrifice?
Author: Gloria Campisi Source: Philadelphia Daily News
Title: BUTCHERED CHICKENS, GOATS VICTIMS OF RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE?
'Tis the season for - animal sacrifice.
So says a local animal-cruelty agent who believes that the Afro-Caribbean practice of Santeria is responsible for the sacrifice of a beheaded goat and two chickens found in Greenmount Cemetery within the past several days.
The dead animals were slaughtered in the cemetery using a makeshift altar surrounded by candles and pennies, said George Bengal, director of investigations for the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
"This is the time of year," in the weeks around Christmas, "for a lot of religious sacrifices," including satanic rituals, Bengal said.
Muslims also practice animal sacrifice this time of year, he said.
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| I Don't Get The Sacrifice Idea. . . | Dec 20th. at 11:05:30 pm EST
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Sunlioness (Deerfield Beach, Florida) - Email Me
Don't the animals belong to Nature? They are not yours. How can you sacrifice what is not yours?
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| Isn't It Legal? | Dec 19th. at 3:09:17 am EST
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Faloku (Arcata, California) - Email Me
Didn't this get settled a couple of years ago? I'm pretty sure animal sacrifice is legal in the United States due to some court rulings. The very sensible argument, as I remember, was:
"If you kill a turkey, pray over it, then eat it for Thanksgiving dinner, that's fine. But if we pray over the turkey, kill it, then eat it, we are breaking the law."
Although of course, it's probably not good to leave the corpses hanging around...
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| I Agree | Dec 18th. at 6:55:51 pm EST
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Ursyl (Murrysville, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
that the leaving of the carcasses just out there seems highly disrespectful. In the case of Islam, as well as various pre-Christian reconstructionist faiths, the sacrifice animals are eaten, so what that has to do with these cases is beyond me.
Do any of the commenters against this practice as legitimately practiced by some religions eat meat?
I rather doubt that those animals or the ones sacrificed by Islam suffered any more than your average beast at a big slaughterhouses.
I'd even be willing to bet that they suffered less overall.
And while the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals guy is looking into this, is he also looking into what regular meat animals experience?
Just saying...
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| That's My Conclusion, Too | Dec 18th. at 5:24:58 pm EST
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me
There is nothing more crude, mindless, unspiritual, bass ackwards or BIBLICAL than animal sacrifice. Some want to bicker over context, but that never changes the fate of the bloody beast that takes the knife. I despise the practice, all those that endorse it or otherwise enable it with weak thinking.
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| I STILL HAVE TO SAY.... | Dec 18th. at 3:23:44 pm EST
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
in this almost the year 2009, haven't we as a race OUTGROWN sacrifices??
Love to all
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| George Bengal Is On The Job Folks! | Dec 18th. at 12:07:34 pm EST
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Just A Wolf (Seward, Michigan) - Email Me
With such hard-hitting deduction, I am sure we can count on this being in the cold-case bin very soon.
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| Oh Dear | Dec 18th. at 5:27:10 am EST
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Errapel (Lowestoft, England) - Email Me
You know, I'm not an expert on these things, but I'm fairly sure that most religions that require animal sacrifice usualy consume all or part of the animal in question. And why on earth was it spray painted? It sounds like wanna-bes and dabblers to me. It's plain irresponsible to leave the carcuses just lying around, that's a public health hazard right there. And it doesn't tally with the reasons for animal sacrifice. Usual that sacrifice is meant to mean something and be offered to the divine. Just leaving it discarded or hanging in trees would be considered totaly disrespectful.
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| ***** | Dec 17th. at 7:24:33 pm EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
I have never heard of spray painting an animal for sacrifice. That has wannabe written all over it.
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| Here We Go Again.... | Dec 17th. at 6:24:19 pm EST
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Karl (Detroit Metro, Michigan) - Email Me
….with this BS implying that Satanists make these sacrifices:
[QUOTE=cited article]…… "This is the time of year," in the weeks around Christmas, "for a lot of religious sacrifices," including satanic rituals, Bengal said……[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Anton LaVey ~ The Satanic Bible]
……“Under NO circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby! For centuries, propagandists of the right-hand path have been prattling over the supposed sacrifices of small children and voluptuous maidens at the hands of diabolists. It would be thought that anyone reading or hearing of these heinous accounts would immediately question their authenticity, taking into consideration the biased sources of the stories. On the contrary, as with all "holy" lies which are accepted without reservation, this assumed modus operandi of the Satanists persists to this day!”…….
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And there you have it, Mr. Bengal, from the Black Pope himself! Get your facts straight, Mr. Bengal.
Animal sacrifice is primitive, nauseating barbarity, period. The OT “divinely inspired” “word” of blood-thirsty “Abraham”ic biblegod, which is a prime source of examples for this aberrant behavior, is chock-full of it. Of course, it progresses all the way to human sacrifice by biblegod in the NT. ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ gore fest really gets the whole point across.
K
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| ... | Dec 17th. at 5:56:21 pm EST
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Unlike Maryland's Keystone State Kops, they didn't mention that it could be a "Pagan" sacrifice. Thank you, Gloria Campisi, for keeping it with the Abrahamic cults.
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| The Differences | Dec 17th. at 3:08:57 pm EST
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R. Cicero (Seattle, Washington) - Email Me
I believe there are some distinct differences, in the world of sanity and ethics, between persons that pray over animals to be slaughtered and then consumed, as opposed to being left in bloody messes at the local cemetery. And there are distinct differences between both of those options and say, being vegetarian or vegan and having no religious beliefs that sanction the mindless slaughter of animals. Those differences might be written off as prejudices, but I strongly believe that in no way, shape or form are all ideas (or persons) created EQUAL on this green earth. But if you're lucky I suppose you might rely on the Constitution to protect your crazy, bad self.
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| Behavioral Profiling Vs. Criminalizing Religions | Dec 17th. at 3:01:55 pm EST
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
Much of what I previously wrote in the following link is applicable to this.
[Web LINK]
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| Spurious At Best | Dec 17th. at 12:03:45 pm EST
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Blue Fox (Toronto (Etobicoke) , Ontario) - Email Me
Wait, what? Muslims perform animal sacrifices?
Leave Satanists out of this, they have a hard enough time of it without you dragging them into a completely unrelated discussion.
You could be right about the involvement of Santeria practitioners, but since they have a constitutionally guaranteed right to practice their religion (since they would have purchased the animals in question) this aspect of their practice shouldn't be the issue...
Performing a ritual in a public cemetery, and leaving the remains, smacks more of Satanic dabblers more than anything else, and it easy to see how many peoples sensibilities could be offended.
Remind me what the difference is between a Rabbi or Imam presiding over the ritualized slaughter of live stock, as opposed to individuals doing it themselves?
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