Butchers With Butcher’s Knives Slaughter Over 300K Animals in Religious Sacrifice
How desperately sad. These f*cking religious nutjobs slaughtering innocent creatures in the name of some insane mythical belief. It’s heartbreaking. Just heartbreaking. Religion is the scourge of the universe.
The world’s biggest animal slaughter has begun once again. The Guardian and Al Jazeera report on the weeks-long festival, which takes place every five years in the Nepalese village of Bariyapur. The killing takes place over just two days, in this case, today and tomorrow: Hindus armed with curved kukri knives kill mass quantities of animals—as varied as buffaloes, goats, and rats—in honor of Gadhimai, the goddess of power. As the centuries-old legend goes, she came to a prisoner in a dream and asked that he build a temple to her; he awoke to find himself no longer bound. As the story goes, he then built that temple, and sacrificed animals there. Today, worshipers believe the sacrifice will bring them prosperity, and that eating the dead animals will keep evil at bay.
The festival’s last occurrence, in 2009, saw an estimated 300,000 animals killed, either by decapitation or by having their throats slit. That makes it the biggest mass killing of animals at a single site, says Al Jazeera. The festival begins with the ritual killing of five animals: a goat, rat, chicken, pig, and pigeon; buffaloes are then slaughtered throughout the first day. It attracts a million worshipers, and in recent years, it’s also attracted the scorn of animal-rights advocates, who say the untrained butchers cause a great deal of suffering and see the piles of dead animals as a health concern. The director of the Indian branch of the Humane Society International describes the scene: “Pools of blood, animals bellowing in pain and panic, wide-eyed children looking on, devotees covered in animal blood, and some people even drinking blood from the headless but still warm carcasses.”
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God save us from your followers.
Yes!
Aw shit, I forgot to add something I saw today. Anyhow, you’ve got one group slaughtering and this other group trying to do everything to keep some animals alive that lost their tiny mommy.
I LOVED those bat babies. I also shared it all over the place. Thanks California girl. You made my day.
Before I go out for the evening I will let you know something you don’t know already 😉 I have a thing for bat like creatures.
As do I…I suspect it was my Transylvania history. I don’t drink wine, by the way. Never wine….
I just can’t anymore with people doing this to poor defenseless animals all because some sky god is a greedy bastard and wants wants wants all the time.
The next time some muddle-headed fool asks me “What’s the harm in religion?” I may bitch slap them with a copy of events like this.
I wonder if this mitigate allowing children to die from lack of medical attention while they “Pray over them?”
Isn’t this disturbing James? Fucking idiots and their fucking pseudo-god.
Mike, speaking as someone who has made words a major part of his life for decades, “disturbing” is not even remotely descriptive of the contempt, derision, and disgust I feel for religious excesses.
I hear you my friend. I hear you….
This is just one of the many many reasons why so many Brits will not accept we are now ‘culturally diverse’. Mainly because this culture will never have any respect from us and doesn’t deserve any.
They, of course, will ‘do their thing’. They’d better not ever try it over here. bastards.
You never know Norman. You’ve got your share of religious nutters as well.