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3/16/2007
4:54:55 pm EDT
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W. Va. Man Accused Of Decapitating Cat As Part Of Satanic Ritual
Author: AP Source: Fox News
Title: WEST VIRGINIA MAN ACCUSED OF DECAPITATING CAT AS PART OF SATANIC RITUAL
A West Virginia man is in jail, accused of decapitating a black cat in a public park in December as part of a satanic ritual.
Kenneth Leroy McCoy, 22, was arrested last week after a witness linked him to the crime, Roane County Chief Deputy J.S. Smith said Friday.
Two women walking around Charles Fork Lake near Spencer in early December found the cat's body in the middle of a pentagram painted on the floor of a picnic shelter, Smith said.
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| Substitutional Sacrifice | Mar 18th. at 12:15:37 am EDT
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arinna (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina) - Email Me
I think the attempt to sacrifice another living being for your own gain is spiritual stealing and also pointless as well as obviously wrong and heinous. As all life is interconnected and has the same source, it is impossible to offer another life as a sacrifice to God/dess. S/he is life's source and has an abundunce already. In my opinion ritual sacrifice only offers disrespect and is bound to backfire.
On the issue of Satanic ritual, It's a shame that label gets thrown around in so many of these cases. There is a difference between this and real religious Satanism. Don't expect the media to catch on any time soon though. They are the ones that create all of these self styled 'satanists' to begin with by parroting the Christian accusations and stereotypes in movies and news stories like this one. Where else do you think maladjusted weirdos get the idea that Satanists sacrifice animals in the first place? It's certainly not in the official literature. Real Satanism reminds me more of aggressive humanism than anything else. I don't mean to be insulting with that but I say aggressive simply because the choice of the label Satanism is in my opinion a symbolic poke in the eye to Christian theology. Unfortunately for Satanists, the Christians poke back.
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| Tiger's Revenge, By Claude Be. | Mar 17th. at 5:07:00 pm EDT
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
Although I have a very lovely Huskie dog at the moment, I do love Cats- all sizes- though the larger ones are usually my favorites.
Those who do sacrifice animals as far as I know, may not use cats-though I could be wrong. Still, they take care to keep pain to a minimum and have a bit of respect for the creature.
This however seems to be a dysfunctional Satanic wannabe who butchered an animal for little reason than because it brought him a sick pleasure from the act.
If he is guilty- then I hope both Sehkmet and Bast have a say in his punishment. I hope he is reborn as something Cats love to hunt-- and may he be sprayed with catnip beforehand. Just to make things interesting.
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| Umm... | Mar 17th. at 3:19:38 pm EDT
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Amtehuti (Queens, Florida) - Email Me
My first thought, actually, was "what a waste". If you're going to kill an animal, at least eat it. As another poster noted, Satanists would never harm an animal in such a manner, and if they WERE going to eat one (I'm not saying that was the intention here) , they certainly wouldn't do it in such a heinous manner.
Animal sacrifice does have a place in some religious circles. There are many Santeras in my family's neighborhood that sacrifice chickens. But such sacrifices impart little to no pain on the animal and the remains are actually used in some way. This isn't a sacrifice to any deity I've ever heard of. It's more like some weird view of Satanism preached at some Christian fundie church.
Animal cruelty is NOT excusable. We are animals, as well, and causing such pain to a fellow creature is honestly a disgrace.
However, before we all join the cyber lynch mob, we need to realize that we don't know if the man is guilty or innocent. If he is guilty, I hope he gets his just rewards, but in this country it is STILL innocent until proven guilty. There are a few holes in the story that just don't seem to add up, and I really hope they didn't just round up the closest occultist in the area and frame him to readily solve the crime.
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| I Don't Know Any Satanic Rituals But. . . | Mar 17th. at 1:12:36 pm EDT
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
If this guy ever uses one of my cats for any kind of ritual, he needs to worry about my committment to the threefold rule - I might decide that a little bad karma in the long run was worth taking a swipe at his head.
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| He'll Get His Just Rewards... | Mar 17th. at 12:59:29 pm EDT
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Aritimi Morgana (RotterdamJct/Schdy/Scotia, New York) - Email Me
maybe not all of us believe in the Threefold Law, but I do. That little pustule is going to reap the results of his crime by receiving the punishment he so deserves for such a monstrous thing. The madness of war is bad enough, but acts such as this are just as awful. I plan on having a congregation of black cats when I'm finally on my own, to love and be loved by.
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| Gods.... | Mar 17th. at 1:57:36 am EDT
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Michael Wolfheart (Rapid City, South Dakota) - Email Me
I'm speechless...that is so disgusting that I cant even fit it into my head right now. Lets just hope they got the right guy so he wont do it again.
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| Ya Know What I Always Wonder Though... | Mar 17th. at 12:39:21 am EDT
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Rev Marc Wicoff (Beachwood, New Jersey) - Email Me
Whenever I read this kind of thing, I always wonder how they clean up the blood stains. I mean, killing a live animal is messy.
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| What The #&*K | Mar 16th. at 10:31:24 pm EDT
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Full Circle CUUPS of Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia) - Email Me
A**hole
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| Constitutional Paradox And Core Ethics | Mar 16th. at 8:34:20 pm EDT
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Terry (Irvington, Virginia) - Email Me
So long as animals are arbitrarily classified as if property of humans, along with promising equal protections of religious rights which go from Jain views that vegetables are sentient and their "murder" wrong for the same reasons some Buddhists are strict vegans, while other religions either respect all species food chains as natural or call for humans to be obnoxious predators, the very notion of "animal rights" will remain at best legally messy.
What if we did seriously protect the rights of predator species, which helped to cull and balance overpopulated human herds?
What if we viewed massive industrial meat production as a serious cause of methane and CO2 emissions contributing to global warming, and imposed taxes high enough to make a Gutrot Arches burger cost $25, as a "voluntary" way to discourage environmentally abusive use of animals, without taking sides on the conflicting ethical and religious rights aspects of how we view or use various species?
If animals do have seriously protected rights, are humans obligated to treat running them down in cars as abuse or murder? Do we have obligations to change our transportation systems and land use plans to ensure safe habitats?
There's every reason to consider Dominionist dogma behind many laws on domestic, wild, and industrial food animals as suspect, at the same time as we consider other religious and practical views which are at best difficult to reconcile.
To deal with these issues seriously calls for setting aside reactive emotive rampages some pagans and many PETA jerks (not all, but many under that banner) dump on others, and rationally inspect many facets of some rather complex mazes of religious, ethical, and practical lifestyle issues. Why, if fur coats and ground burger mills are legal, shouldn't some warped punk have the right to execute a no more or less defenseless animal in a peculiar religious ritual? Does the fact that this cat was apparently trashed for no reason other than to kill make this ritual different than a Santeros sacrifice, which at least feigns respect and uses the meat for food, possibly as a modern remnant of tribal practices to promote equitable sharing of limited high protein foods among weak and strong tribal members as a form of ethics implemented via religious ritual? What about shamanic practices, which consider the sacrifice of a tree for a sweat lodge or fire also a form of killing, which can be justified under some conditions, and where mountains and machines may join animals and plants in what are considered life forms available for limited human use, with that defined around responsible balances?
I think what this story describes was a form of abuse, but is that a judgement law is entitled to impose, or merely a gross difference of religious and ethical values where this person is entitled to religious rituals many of us might find well beyond distasteful? If restaurants serve dog, horse, deer, and cow, young veal included, as well as cat in some cultures, why not serve soylent green or respect a religious right to sacrifice the same species served as food? What about the different views of life surrounding abortion or criminal death penalties, versus a Jain sweeping before stepping to avoid crushing an insect by accident?
Civil rights law is about defining the extreme boundaries for what neighbors are entitled to do, and fail if we try to define that to only tolerate what most of us consider normal or would choose to do ourselves.
Is the only difference between this arrest and other forms of legally protected killing of similar species that a cop or some neighbors dislike the style of a particular morbid religious focus? Or, was there some key difference other than that?
This ritual sounds disgusting to me, but the alleged "abuse" sounds perfectly normal by the standards of what my long time little "hunter kitty" companion used to do to chipmunks, mice, and ground moles, in her younger days sometimes tormenting one for an hour or two before gutting it. As such, I seriously question whether this arrest is based primarily on little more than a notion that approved religions are obligated to teach respect for life, which opens a very slippery slope for law, even if most of us here would indeed find religions lacking that core ethic suspect based on personal values.
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| Circumstantial Evidence | Mar 16th. at 8:30:54 pm EDT
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Shadow Dragon (nashville, Tennessee) - Email Me
It’s circumstantial evidence. I carry a pocket knife. he had rope. And there was string on the cat. Was there blood on the knife. Who ever did this has no occult knowledge. When occult crimes occur, police usually grab the first witch they can get there hands on. And frame him.
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| SICK, JUST SICK.... | Mar 16th. at 6:10:32 pm EDT
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Whitewolf (Schenectady, New York) - Email Me
harming an innocent animal is NEVER acceptable.....
Love to all
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| Oh My! | Mar 16th. at 6:00:04 pm EDT
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Enerovan (Rochester, Massachusetts) - Email Me
That's absolutely horrible! I really have no problem whatsoever with different beliefs, but when it involves harming a living being, that's just plain wrong...
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