(IN): Animal sacrifice

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The following response is with reference to a letter published on 27th July'

2009 (attached below).

 

Azam

 

http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jul3009/letter2

 

LETTERS

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*Proxy sacrifice

Sir, – It refers to the letter “Animal sacrifice” by Dilip K Chakrabarty,

(AT, July 27).

 

There is no debate on the issue of animal sacrifice for whatever reason. The

practice is just plain cruel, uncivilized, unwarranted, and speaks volumes

of how poorly a society can be viewed, with animal sacrifice as a backdrop.

 

What is the “noble” reason Chakravarty refers to? Only highly deluded humans

can even try and justify such an abhorrent practice. None of us ought to

take any pride in our power and capacity to sacrifice powerless animals. I

cannot imagine any omnipotent, all powerful, kind, and loving God can be

appeased to any degree by clueless humans wanting to absolve their sins

through some proxy sacrifice. – Yours etc, Ram Sarangapani, Spring, Texas,

USA.*

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http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jul2709/letter3

 

LETTERS

 

Animal sacrifice

* Sir, – In animal sacrifice, the killing of an animal is not regarded as

slaughter. It is not a crime, sacrifice means “to make an offering to God”;

“to give up a thing for some noble reason.” When an animal is offered as a

victim in the sacrifice it leaves behind its mortal frame and its spirit

achieves union with the God invoked in the sacrifice. The sacrifice helps

the animal to attain this divine status, union with the God in an easy way.

Killing in sacrifice amounts to non-killing. As the sacrificer is not able

to offer himself in the sacrifice, an animal or other obligations are

offered as his substitute. The animal is regarded as the proxy. – Yours etc.

Dilip Kumar Chakrabarty, Rukmininagar, Guwahati.

 

 

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