Digest Number 144

[Guest guest]

Tom,

 

While I appreciate your thoughtful post on the Fijans, I have to

respectfully part company with you. Yes, the idea of animal sacrifice is

age-old and traditional. But if our spirituality doesn't motivate us to

oppose the sufferings of our fellow creatures, then what are we in the

religion game for? Again--if God really wants us to kill, not for dharma

or even for use, but just to placate Him, what kind of God is that?

 

Clearly the point is not about meat-eating. Nor is it about warfare. It

is actually very basic--do we want a God that demands the heads of

goats? Frankly, its an easier sacrifice than the giving up of lust and

greed. But I think Divine mother--and Sri Ramakrishna--would prefer the

latter.

 

ac

 

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