Seven-year-old sacrificed to the gods for good harvest in India

I'm going to withhold comment until I know if it worked.

 

Religion/superstition.

#thats**tcray

 

Sad.

 

Repped

 

Anyone that is stupid enough to believe in human sacrifice should be killed just for being that ****ing stupid.
Religious freedom is great, but at some point a line should be drawn.

 

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sigh...

Who said this had anything to do with religion. No one cited any religious doctrine. There's no Hindu, Muslim, or Christian scripture that calls for human sacrifice.

This is a product of uneducated people doing things based on tribal superstitions.

But ok, use it as an excuse to demand we restrict religious freedom. And do so without taking a second to verify if religion had anything to do with this.

 

Sounds like a tribal religion to me.

I can cite 2,000+ years of violence directly or indirectly related to religion (Chrisitianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc.) if I wanted to.

Religious freedom > Human life, apparently?
I'm all for religious freedom by the way. But are you really going to defend tribal religions that sacrifice human lives like these? Uneducated or not, killing people is wrong.

 

That makes no sense. Let me reiterate. You're using this as a nice excuse to rant about religion. First of all, tie this to religion. Figure out what religion these people were and then tell me what religious doctrine encouraged them to sacrifice children.

Chhattisgarh in particular is filled with tribal and historically lower caste groups that are very uneducated and as a result have continued to maintain old and an cases like this barbaric traditions. This is a consequence of being poor and uneducated, not because of a religion in particular. Close to half the state is classified as an officially recognized scheduled tribe or caste group.

I'm guessing you know next to nothing about India's history or the history of scheduled tribes and castes yet feel the need to use this tragedy as some sort of rant as to why religious freedom should be curtailed. And you do so in sweeping glances with little to no context.

You chose to interpret something as significant as religiously motivated violence based on one sentence of one article.

 

you should move there and then we'll see how fast you throw crud around.

 

On another note about India, there have been 40+ million girls gone missing in the country since 1980. It's insane how they value their kids as future income, they see a girl as a burden. This happens in quite a few other places so I don't want to single out India, but this topic just reminded me of these staggering numbers and it hardly gets any attention.

 

This is what happens when you don't eat beef.

 

Happened a lot in China too when they were extremely strict about the one child policy.

 

Or we could all go over there and participate with them!

 

These people are called cult or serial killers in the United States, individuals who murder without one of the classic motives of love, money or anger. The hitch is that Abrahamic religions were the first ones to implicitly frown on human sacrifice as unneccessary for divine blessing, so Western countries don't have cultures that would allow this craziness to go unchecked. Also, non-industrialized, heavily populated countries simply can't be policed or governed with any real success.

 

"Any-ding goooo..."

 

Lovely...

 

QUESTION: Does killing for money . . .aka the Menedez brothers any better?

Please let me know the GOOD reasons for Violence and Killing.

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