Self-hating Americans love to beat up on Christianity and point to other world religions as vastly superior to their own.
Visit any local yoga studio these days and you’ll hear legions of Millennials blissfully chanting in Sanskrit while spouting bon mots of sacred wisdom derived from the Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism’s Bible.
But confront these same blind worshipers with the ugly realities of Hinduism as a daily religious practice in many parts of Asia today and they’ll likely give you a blank stare– or accuse you of indulging bigotry and slander.
It isn’t prejudiced, though, to suggest that Hindus may not be living up to their noble spiritual goals by engaging in barbaric animal slaughter — and pretending it’s for a Divine purpose.
The UK-based newspaper The Independent reported this week on the Gadhimai Festival, held every five years in Hindu-dominated Nepal — which features the mass killing of thousands of water buffaloes, including calves still in their infancy.
The U.K. news account included a video that recorded the onset and aftermath of the bloody slaughter as well as eyewitnesses who provided numerous gruesome details:
“The Gadhimai festival started in the early hours of Tuesday morning as a priest killed a goat, rat, chicken, pig, and pigeon and then offered blood from his own body,” the account began.
“Around 200 butchers wielding curved kukri knives then descended on a walled temple arena containing an estimated 3,500 buffalo to behead the animals.
Campaigners for animal rights charity Humane Society International described seeing baby buffaloes bellowing as they watched their mothers being decapitated.
They said others collapsed from exhaustion, sickness, and stress as worshippers attempted to drag them to their deaths.”
Organizers of the festival believe sacrificing the buffalos and other animals bring participants good luck. It’s specifically intended as an appeal to Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, to answer their wishes.
Despite years of protests, organizers of the event have defended it as part of Hindu religious and Nepalese cultural tradition.
But many educated Hindus who frown on the tradition say it’s giving Hinduism – and countries like Nepal – a huge black eye.
Protests from animal rights groups – as well as a crackdown by elements within the Nepalese government — appear to have had some effect in reducing the level of carnage at the festival in recent years
In 2009, some 250,000 to 500,000 buffaloes, goats, pigeons and other animals were killed, mainly by being hacked to death with machetes or having their throats slit with knives. Some 5 million Hindus from all over South Asia participated in the three-day event
But in 2014, the number of animals killed was reduced to 30,000. This year’s festival saw far fewer slaughtered – in fact, the lowest ever recorded in the event’s centuries-long history.
Back in 2015, the Nepalese government formally banned the Gadhimai festival, but popular protests from Nepalese Hindus in the region have kept the event alive.
And despite pleas to eliminate ritual sacrifice in the future – and replace it with purely symbolic sacrifice — few expect the bloody slaughter to cease entirely.
Nepal is not alone. Local Hindu groups in India still practice ritual animal sacrifice, ostensibly for religious purposes, especially in the eastern part of the country.
In the town of Orissa, a festival similar to Gadhimai is held annually to try to appease a local goddess known as Samaleswari. In this case, primarily male goats are sacrificed.
Groups in other countries with Hindu-observing populations, including Muslim-dominated Indonesia (primarily on the island of Bali), also practice ritual animal sacrifice, though on a lesser scale.
One of the hardest part of these events for outsides especially to understand – and tolerate is the way baby buffaloes and other animals are made to bear witness to the slaughter of their mothers – and then just as often slaughtered themselves.
Their terrified shrieks and wailing fill the air as the merciless onslaught continues, often for well over an hour.
But nothing seems to deter those that butcher them. They often emerge covered from head to toe with animal blood, as battered and headless corpses lie strewn around them.
And to what good use are these tons of raw buffalo meat put? None, of course. So many Hindus are practicing vegetarians
This is “Namaste” from hell.
It is their religion, and if it requires animal sacrifice, then it requires animal sacrifice. Same as Judaism. If there were a Temple, Israel would be sacrificing in Jerusalem, and spreading the blood of hundreds of thousands of sheep against the alter.
So, leave them be to practice their religion. No need to disparage them for sacrifices.
However, If they are willing to curtail their religious requirements to accomodate the feelings of animal rights activists, then they really werent convicted that the sacrifice is a requirement. Or, maybe it was just an extra perk if they sacrificed and it isnt a requirement.
America slaughters babies on a daily basis, and the dim0cRATS want to make it legal to do so even after the baby has been born and is several hours old.
What does this has to do with the present topic at hand?. Before you make accusing judgements stay focused on what you say and not by what others are telling trust but verify!
Do the same to these imbeciles who are nothing more than murders of innocent lives. The soullessness of their way is disgusting and must be recognized stopped and prosecuted. I will be happy to apply the same to these so called disgusting humans with their children watching or at least install so much fear and exhaustion to make them think twice before bestowing such cruelty to these poor creatures. Who the h$ll can live with themselves acting in such a grotesque manor? Lord this has to be stopped please in YOUR NAME I PRAY AMEN!
The killing of animals for sacrificing is an old act & is no longer nessesary. These people should not be allowed to do this anymore
They are just nut cases!
I don’t know about the rest of you but I don’t want anything to do with a God that demands the blood of innocent anything be spilled for no reason what so ever. I find it disgusting. Like I find trophy hunting disgusting. You kill an animal as humanly as possible in order to provide food, you don’t terrify it and kill it in some horrible fashion. You certainly don’t spill it’s blood to honor “God”. No true version of God would accept such an offering.
these Gods are the demons who feed on lower vibrations only ,the same “Gods” lure minds and soul of humans to flip over their beings into negative emotions – anger , greed of those who have as well as those who don’t have , sentimentality ,hope instead of search of understanding within, structured religions , envy ,thousands of fears of death which is the fear of not living ones life , fear of common sexuality , hatred of oneself or the “other”, living of the “known” rather then keeping thinking mind to its limited purpose . The wars are chiefly a feeding frenzy for these entities and their servants amongst humans , obviously wars have no purpose especially when enslaved emotions muddy up the clarity of spirit within. The psychopats – human “organic portals” or mostly otherwise – have been around the creation probably very long time and people caught their virus . Observation without judgment or expectation ,hope of thought of heaven instead of “not knowing” but being open to ALL rather then only to EVERYTHING will make the process of being born or reborn possible when the transmuting of negative emotions will become part of life . Yes ,we are born in pain and this is our first birth out of time.
If all these dirty psychotic dingbat are in one place at one time one nuke would solve the problem for most of our life times….nuke the GODdami festival!
Yes, thousands daily. God will do justice sooner or later.
I don’t like animals being slaughtered but I really hate when the children of God, made in His image, are being sacrificed in the name of inconvenience, to whom? The devil? I’m sure he is having a party every time.
who ever said that the People from India were nice people…they are as bad as everyone else in the world. The only one who like them, because they kissed her ass, was Carter’s mother who was sent to India. Hence Carter opened the floodgate for the Hindues to come to the USA and we the people with our tax dollars have set them up in gas stations and motels and what ever they said they were in INdia for free. As a white citizen of this country see what the Demo_RATS will give you beside the bill!!! They are backed by the Government. If they have a bad year the Government picks up the slack and makes up the money they lost for the year. Nice way to get free money… but not for we the white people, we have to pay
I’m curious to know what happens to all the carcasses. Is the meat distributed to the poor or is there a really big BBQ that we could all join in on. I’ve got some really great BBQ sauce that I’d be happy to bring.
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