10-11-2017, 03:30 PM
I am not feeling very philosophical tonight. I will need to come back and read things again tomorrow.
The point I was making was not a criticism of religion or any particular religion. I am questioning why we are clinging to outdated acts of cruelty towards animals. This is the same as Gadhimai. For some reason killing animals is being given a spiritual significance that it doesn't deserve.
More than 40 years ago as part of a religious studies course we visited a Synagogue. I asked if the Temple were ever rebuilt would they start sacrificing lambs again. The Rabbi gave me a look and then he said (I have lost the exact words) it is the 20th century and we have grown way past such things.
It is now the 21st century and it is incredible to find that humans have not grown past such things.
The point I was making was not a criticism of religion or any particular religion. I am questioning why we are clinging to outdated acts of cruelty towards animals. This is the same as Gadhimai. For some reason killing animals is being given a spiritual significance that it doesn't deserve.
More than 40 years ago as part of a religious studies course we visited a Synagogue. I asked if the Temple were ever rebuilt would they start sacrificing lambs again. The Rabbi gave me a look and then he said (I have lost the exact words) it is the 20th century and we have grown way past such things.
It is now the 21st century and it is incredible to find that humans have not grown past such things.
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Catherine
