THE SACRIFICE OF INNOCENCE

THE SACRIFICE OF INNOCENCE

Mass-scale animal sacrifice cannot be considered a humanistic act, far less a spiritual one. It is time for our ideas of God to evolve beyond ancient and medieval conceptions. Modernity demands a new outlook on the Divine and in matters religious that have strong social connotations. 

Human beings become inhuman when they en masse sacrifice helpless animals to please a God whose thirst for such offering never seems to be satisfied despite being offered such a ritual for millenia. It is time then to review religion, shed mythological superstition that is the seed of a barbarous  practice, and modernise conceptions about both the temporal and the transcendental, failing which countless more millions of dumb creatures will be bled to death in the years ahead. 

Enough is enough. Now time it is for us to be civilised. Man ought not to think that he is so superior as to claim arbitrary right over lower animals thus. If scripture instructs so, it is time to make amendments therein, for all scripture has after all been written by man despite tall claims of divine revelation as to their origin. What sort of omniscience of the Divine makes so many factual mistakes in its so-called revelations that have made such pronouncements puerile in modern terms? 

It is not sacrifice of animals in the name of faith but it is the sacrifice of innocence, both in terms of the innocent animals that are bled to death and in terms of the spititual innocence lost to those billions who participate in this gruesome exercise as perpetrator and as devout witness.

Written by Sugata Bose