During the festival each year, over 350,000 animals are slaughtered as sacrifice to the deity Gadhimai.

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JKing106

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If we weren't supposed to eat animals, they wouldn't be made of delicious meat. Amen, Praise Baby Jeebus, kthnxbai.
 

actuarial

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Originally posted by: DesiPower
I fully agree that the practice is dumb and i am not trying to defend it, I was just replying to your original post highlighted above. Intent is a part of morality BUT in today's day and age there is no defendable intent for killing, all animal killings are same and equally immoral. So please don't criticize a religion and go all out cursing it while you have a hamburger in you hand.

I also wonder which animals are treated worse before their death, the Hindu sacrifices or our meat?

How would the morally outraged here rate a senseless killing against a relatively sensible (in their opinion) killing in which the animal is tortured (for profit) first?
 

FaaR

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Originally posted by: dguy6789
The post was probably sarcasm, but it's true. Their(And many other cultures) backwards and brutal way of life needs to go asap.
Lol, wut?

Name me one culture that is not brutal please.

"Western" culture is the most brutal culture ever spawned on this planet, it's caused the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in countless crusades, wars, land grabs and other invasions. The forced colonization of the americas by europeans was lined with mass-genocide of entire cultures and nations. Most of the bloodthirstiest and most notorious leaders in documented history have been european, or of european descent.

Western culture spawned most, if not all of today's most leathal weapons, including fragmentation mines, cluster bombs, phosphorous grenades, nukes and chemical and biological agents.

"Backwards" is an emotionally charged statement; it's not objectively quantifiable, and hence biased from the outset. Please re-phrase your thoughts in a more neutral manner.

There's no bloodthirstier or more xenophobic man on the planet than the pinkskin... So look yourself in the mirror first before repeating such utter bollicks as in that post of yours again. :p

PS: Most serial killers are pink-skinned.
 

OCGuy

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Originally posted by: FaaR
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The post was probably sarcasm, but it's true. Their(And many other cultures) backwards and brutal way of life needs to go asap.
Lol, wut?

Name me one culture that is not brutal please.

"Western" culture is the most brutal culture ever spawned on this planet, it's caused the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in countless crusades, wars, land grabs and other invasions. The forced colonization of the americas by europeans was lined with mass-genocide of entire cultures and nations. Most of the bloodthirstiest and most notorious leaders in documented history have been european, or of european descent.

Western culture spawned most, if not all of today's most leathal weapons, including fragmentation mines, cluster bombs, phosphorous grenades, nukes and chemical and biological agents.

"Backwards" is an emotionally charged statement; it's not objectively quantifiable, and hence biased from the outset. Please re-phrase your thoughts in a more neutral manner.

There's no bloodthirstier or more xenophobic man on the planet than the pinkskin... So look yourself in the mirror first before repeating such utter bollicks as in that post of yours again. :p

PS: Most serial killers are pink-skinned.

Bull.

 

AreaCode707

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Originally posted by: OCguy
Originally posted by: FaaR
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The post was probably sarcasm, but it's true. Their(And many other cultures) backwards and brutal way of life needs to go asap.
Lol, wut?

Name me one culture that is not brutal please.

"Western" culture is the most brutal culture ever spawned on this planet, it's caused the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in countless crusades, wars, land grabs and other invasions. The forced colonization of the americas by europeans was lined with mass-genocide of entire cultures and nations. Most of the bloodthirstiest and most notorious leaders in documented history have been european, or of european descent.

Western culture spawned most, if not all of today's most leathal weapons, including fragmentation mines, cluster bombs, phosphorous grenades, nukes and chemical and biological agents.

"Backwards" is an emotionally charged statement; it's not objectively quantifiable, and hence biased from the outset. Please re-phrase your thoughts in a more neutral manner.

There's no bloodthirstier or more xenophobic man on the planet than the pinkskin... So look yourself in the mirror first before repeating such utter bollicks as in that post of yours again. :p

PS: Most serial killers are pink-skinned.

Bull.

Eloquent. Can you please expand on the latter part of your rebuttal? I'm not sure I caught your full meaning, since it was fairly complex.
 

JKing106

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Originally posted by: FaaR
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The post was probably sarcasm, but it's true. Their(And many other cultures) backwards and brutal way of life needs to go asap.
Lol, wut?

Name me one culture that is not brutal please.

"Western" culture is the most brutal culture ever spawned on this planet, it's caused the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in countless crusades, wars, land grabs and other invasions. The forced colonization of the americas by europeans was lined with mass-genocide of entire cultures and nations. Most of the bloodthirstiest and most notorious leaders in documented history have been european, or of european descent.

Western culture spawned most, if not all of today's most leathal weapons, including fragmentation mines, cluster bombs, phosphorous grenades, nukes and chemical and biological agents.

"Backwards" is an emotionally charged statement; it's not objectively quantifiable, and hence biased from the outset. Please re-phrase your thoughts in a more neutral manner.

There's no bloodthirstier or more xenophobic man on the planet than the pinkskin... So look yourself in the mirror first before repeating such utter bollicks as in that post of yours again. :p

PS: Most serial killers are pink-skinned.

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You know, I got into an argument once with a white supremacist who tried to use the old "Black people are the tribe of Cain, they've been marked..." argument. I countered with "Well, you know, most of the planet's races are brown to black skinned, and most of the most brutal and reprehensible episodes of genocide and conquest have been at the hands of the "white" races. He then proceeded to call me a "N****r lover." Gotta love that logic.

 

Whitecloak

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ya, we should start colonialism again. bring christianity to the coloured men. and pillage their resources, their lands and their people at the same time.
 

rchiu

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Originally posted by: FaaR
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The post was probably sarcasm, but it's true. Their(And many other cultures) backwards and brutal way of life needs to go asap.
Lol, wut?

Name me one culture that is not brutal please.

"Western" culture is the most brutal culture ever spawned on this planet, it's caused the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in countless crusades, wars, land grabs and other invasions. The forced colonization of the americas by europeans was lined with mass-genocide of entire cultures and nations. Most of the bloodthirstiest and most notorious leaders in documented history have been european, or of european descent.

Western culture spawned most, if not all of today's most leathal weapons, including fragmentation mines, cluster bombs, phosphorous grenades, nukes and chemical and biological agents.

"Backwards" is an emotionally charged statement; it's not objectively quantifiable, and hence biased from the outset. Please re-phrase your thoughts in a more neutral manner.

There's no bloodthirstier or more xenophobic man on the planet than the pinkskin... So look yourself in the mirror first before repeating such utter bollicks as in that post of yours again. :p

PS: Most serial killers are pink-skinned.

Oh and don't forget American probably killed and injured hundreds of thousands in Iraq with no justification.

Stop crying about killing animals raised for human consumption. There are plenty of cultures present food to their god/ancestors during prayer/ceremony, Chinese, Indian, Muslims does it.(that's about 2/3 of the world) There are bigger problems for people like OP to worry about.
 

Ozoned

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Originally posted by: Infohawk
Originally posted by: OCguy
It makes no difference if it is for food or if sacrafice. Once the animal is dead, it has no idea why it was killed.

Yes it does. Intent is a huge part of morality. There is a difference between killing a man in wartime and killing a man so that you can steal his car, for example.

People are taking the moral relativism thing way too far. This is wrong and barbaric and deserves to be criticized and ridiculed.

......and tolerated.

 

0marTheZealot

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Originally posted by: OCguy
Originally posted by: FaaR
Originally posted by: dguy6789
The post was probably sarcasm, but it's true. Their(And many other cultures) backwards and brutal way of life needs to go asap.
Lol, wut?

Name me one culture that is not brutal please.

"Western" culture is the most brutal culture ever spawned on this planet, it's caused the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in countless crusades, wars, land grabs and other invasions. The forced colonization of the americas by europeans was lined with mass-genocide of entire cultures and nations. Most of the bloodthirstiest and most notorious leaders in documented history have been european, or of european descent.

Western culture spawned most, if not all of today's most leathal weapons, including fragmentation mines, cluster bombs, phosphorous grenades, nukes and chemical and biological agents.

"Backwards" is an emotionally charged statement; it's not objectively quantifiable, and hence biased from the outset. Please re-phrase your thoughts in a more neutral manner.

There's no bloodthirstier or more xenophobic man on the planet than the pinkskin... So look yourself in the mirror first before repeating such utter bollicks as in that post of yours again. :p

PS: Most serial killers are pink-skinned.

Bull.

Great reasoning there bud.