Posted: Mar 26, 2010 10:43 am
In this case, you go with what is emphasized by the Bible.
That's relativism. If I wanted to justify human sacrifices I could use as an excuse any verse of the bible that justifies it. Or even worse, being imperfect as I am, I should strive to be like God. He's the largest recorded mass murderer of history, how about that?.
If it's horrific, why do you belive in it?, violence further than Judges you want?:
1SA 15:3, 7-8 "This is what the Lord says: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass ....' And Saul ... utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword."
Got more if you want.
And i don't see how sacrificing an animal is disrespectful, given that you avoid to cause it excessive suffering
And yet i'm gonna burn in hell and you rejoice in heaven?.
But seariously, think about the animal sacrifices through, even the miniscule ammount of unnecesary suffering on behalf of creatures that have nothing to do with our madness is nothing short of cruelty.
But hey, after killing everyone in the entire world and every animal except 2 of each spicies, this is a banality right?