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	Animal sacrifice - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing of an animal as part of a religion.
		Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans and from the Aztecs to the Yoruba.
		Animal sacrifice is still practised today by the followers of Santería and other "lineages of Orisa", as a means of curing the sick and giving thanks to the Orisa (Gods).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Animal_sacrifice (287 words)

	Animal sacrifice in the Quran-sacrifice in Eid Al Adha on the tenth of Zul-Hijja. Eid Al Azha (Bakri ...
		Animal sacrifice in the Quran-sacrifice in Eid Al Adha on the tenth of Zul-Hijja.
		Animal sacrifice done on the day called Eid Al Azha (Bakri Eid) that many so-called Muslims celebrate is like many others acts an innovation falsely attributed to God.
		The other reasons where animal sacrifice is in the order is when the state of Ihraam is violated between Umrah and Hajj and when a game animal is killed during pilgrimage.
	www.submission.org /hajj/sacrifice.html (1040 words)

	Animal sacrifice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Animal sacrifice is the ritual killing of an animal as part of a religion.
		Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the Greeks and Romans and from the Aztecs to the Yoruba.
		Animal sacrifice is still practised today by the followers of Santería and other "lineages of Orisa", as a means of curing the sick and giving thanks to the Orisa (Gods).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Animal_sacrifice (273 words)

	A decree on animal sacrifice
		Although animal sacrifice was not acceptable to them, they questioned the wisdom of seeking to end an age-old practice by the mere enforcement of a law.
		Referring to the prevalence of animal sacrifice among Muslims, the professor said the practice among them was to donate the hide to the dargha and partake the meat with others in community feasts.
		A few years ago, when a Brahmin poojari objected to animal sacrifice in one such temple for a village deity in Coimbatore on the grounds that it could not be done in a temple that had a Linga, the people removed the Linga and went ahead with the sacrifice.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2020/stories/20031010001205000.htm (2092 words)

	Santeria and Animal Sacrifice: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sacrifices are performed to mark significant events such as birth, marriage and death, or when new members or priests are initiated.
		The animals are killed in a ritual manner by cutting the carotid artery.
		In 1983, Gary Francione litigated the first case that raised the question whether Santeria animal sacrifice was protected by the free exercise of religion clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
	www.animal-law.org /sacrifice/sacrfc.htm (556 words)

	...::: Welcome To EidSacrifice.com :::... <<<Home or Abroad... Be There At Your Eid Sacrifice>>> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The sacrifice is not valid if the animal slaughtered does not belong to the person who is sacrificing it, such as one that has been taken by force, stolen, or taken on the basis of a false claim, etc, because it is not permissible to draw closer to Allaah by means of sin.
		Sacrifice of animal (sacrifice) is an act of worship ('ibadah).
		The meat of the Sacrifice of animal should be divided in three equal portions: one for oneself and the family, one for friends, and one for the poor and needy.
	www.eidsacrifice.com /fatawa.asp (5432 words)

	Animal Rights
		people should realise that in a modern humane society, the sacrifice of animals on the name of religion or ancient rituals, is merely moving back the clock of civilisation and is a reflection of a people with little sensitivity and a crude sensibility.
		Animals may not be worked for more than 5 hours at a stretch and not for more than a total of 8 hours a day.
		At the time of accepting these animals, the Gaushala must be sure to get pictures of the condition of the animals as well as a statement signed by the accompanying police and owner testifying that the animals are in poor condition and the number that are dead.
	www.animalinfo.50megs.com /custom.html (5491 words)

	Sacrifice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The theology of sacrifice remains not only for religions that continue to practice rituals of sacrifice, but also for those religions that have animal sacrifice in their scriptures, traditions, or histories, even if sacrifice is no longer made.
		In Christian theology this sacrifice replaced the insufficient animal sacrifice of the Old Covenant; Christ the "Lamb of God" replaced the lambs sacrifice of the ancient Korban Todah (the Rite of Thanksgiving), chief of which is the Passover in the Mosaic law.
		Animal sacrifice (of goats and buffaloes) is rare but is held on certain festivals in contemporary India, and Sri Lanka, especially to honor the Mother Goddess (Durga) by the followers of certain cultic groups of Hindus belonging to the sect of Shaktism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacrifice (3228 words)

	Progressive Dawoodi Bohras: An Islamic Perspective Against Animal Sacrifice
		In relation to the discussion of animal welfare, this tendency amongst westerners usually places the Islamic world as the "Barbaric Other", an isolated domain whose population is perceived as being steeped in superstition, and somehow outside the realm of reason and intellectual discussion, thus making it an inpenatabrale wilderness, viewed as forever lost territory.
		Animals are mentioned in the Quran in relation to sacrifice, only because in that time, place and circumstance, animals were the means of survival.
		Animal sacrifice only has meaning or purpose in the process of submitting to Allah in context of thanking Allah for our means of survival.
	www.dawoodi-bohras.com /perspective/animal.htm (2561 words)

	Sacrifice in Soul Life
		The sacrifice of animals by the pilgrim who goes to Mecca, and even by those who do not undertake the pilgrimage, was originally instituted in commemoration of Abraham's proposed sacrifice of his son Ishmael.
		Animal sacrifice is more than an act of cruelty; the ritual of animal slaughter is often accompanied with incantations, etc., and Theosophy explains that such acts belong to the province of fl magic.
		The mighty lesson that they impart by their sacrifice is this: Each one of us, in our own innermost heart, is also divine, and we must willingly and cheerfully, yet knowingly and intelligently, deal with our own carnal and corporeal nature as they deal with us mortals.
	www.teosofia.com /sacrifice.html (2221 words)

	Blue Cross - Animal Sacrifice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The animal (and, formerly, person) could be a scapegoat for human sins or inexplicable natural phenomena, or a vehicle to carry away the collected demons or ills of an entire community.
		Animal sacrifices are promoted by moneylenders, who freely give loans for the occasion and thus get illiterate villagers into their clutches.
		Sacrifice is neither: It is cruel and disgusting.
	www.bluecross.org.in /AnimalSacrifice.html (1182 words)

	Cruelty Free Lifestyles
		When an animal is to be sacrificed, however, it should be an uncastrated male which is killed, apparently as a display of life's potency.
		This death to please the gods is also interpreted as doing the animal a favor by releasing it from a life of suffering, amid hopes that it may be reborn as a much more fortunate human.
		Sacrifices are also performed as a mass bloodletting, such as during the Durga Pooja festival when, once a year, soldiers in the center of Kathmandu hack off the heads of hundreds of waterbuffalos and goats -- trying to dispatch each with a single stroke.
	www.animalnepal.org /lifestyle.htm (1630 words)

	Numenous Thoughts: Animal Sacrifice
		The animal we eat must be killed humanely, with honor, and with an acknowledgement that we have removed this animal from the circle of life to offer us sustenance.
		Sacrifice of animals is a method of limiting what is eaten, and how.
		Some of the rituals surrounding the killing of a meat animal were so involved and particular that eating meat was not done privately, but was a public act, shared among the community.
	nodigio3.blogspot.com /2005/02/animal-sacrifice.html (849 words)

	Animal Sacrifice
		Centuries earlier, in 587 B.C. animal sacrifices were ended by the destruction of the magnificent Temple built by King Solomon.
		This resumption of sacrifices, as reported in the Bible, is almost a word-for-word refutation of the Prophet Isaiah's oracle against such worship.
		Once the cult of animal sacrifice was restored, there is no further biblical denouncement of it until the ministry of Jesus.
	www.essene.com /HumaneReligion/AnimalSacrifice.htm (1835 words)

	JesusVeg.com: Frequently Asked Questions 10-1-98
		Hosea and Jeremiah state explicitly that human beings created animal sacrifice as an excuse to consume flesh: "They offer sacrifices to me because they are those who eat the meat, but Yahweh does not accept their sacrifices, for He is mindful of their sin and remembers their wickedness" (Hosea 8:13).
		Animal sacrifice was never a part of God's plan, as clearly stated in Genesis 1.
		Animal sacrifice was condemned by God through the prophets and by Jesus throughout his entire life.
	www.jesusveg.com /qow10198.html (840 words)

	Why did God require animal sacrifices in the Old Testament?
		This sacrifice from Noah was an aroma that was soothing to the Lord (Genesis 8:20-21).
		The animal served as a substitute--that is, the animal died in place of the sinner.
		The only basis on which an animal sacrifice could provide forgiveness of sins is the fact that Christ would sacrifice Himself for our sins, providing the forgiveness that animal sacrifices could only illustrate and foreshadow.
	www.gotquestions.org /animal-sacrifices.html (634 words)

	Sacrifice
		Some anthropologists and historians have speculated that the sacrifice of animals followed a period of the sacrifice of humans as the vehicle of cosmic renewal.
		We are not, then, looking for "an excuse to stop performing the sacrifice" but rather a theologically valid way to transform the sacrifice while maintaining its focus and impact, as was done in the alleged transition from human to animal sacrifice.
		From that point, the sacrifice could proceed as the ritual of death and dismemberment, with the burning of the plants to release the spirit-body and its component parts in the act of cosmic renewal.
	www.fhaoil-choin.org /sacrifice.htm (2112 words)

	Animal Sacrifice
		Africans sacrificed animals, mainly birds, and in many cases only their blood, to insure that their crops would prosper, that rain would come at the appropriate times, and to cause priests to go into trances and be possessed by spirits.
		The pervasiveness of sacrifice seems to indicate that all people realize that there is a God, that he hates sin, and that some sacrifice is necessary to avert his wrath.
		The opening of the temple veil was to signify that animal sacrifices are no longer needed to approach God in faith that Jesus Christ had paid the death penalty for sin.
	www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/essays/cot/t0w13sacrifice.htm (1346 words)

	Santeria leader fights animal sacrifice ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Merced tried unsuccessfully to explain that animal sacrifice is as essential to his religion, Santeria, as the Eucharist is to Catholicism.
		He said the sacrifice is done humanely with a single puncturing of the carotid artery with a 4-inch knife.
		This sacrifice is commemorated in Mass with the sacrament of the wafer and wine.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /17085/santeria-leader-fights-animal-sacrifice-ban (1882 words)

	Sacrifice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It seems the purpose of a relgious sacrifice is to sanctify the taking of a life, usually marked by the spilling of the victim's blood, as is the case with animals and humans.
		Within the category of animal sacrifices the law designated further distinctions, with one exception: all sacrificial animals had to be blemish-free.
		The practice of animal sacrifice was abolished with the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E..
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/WMNS/Projects/Wmns36/violence/sacframe.htm (1854 words)

	OneWorld U.S. Home / Today's News - Animal Sacrifice: Indian Crackdown Provokes Believers' Ire
		CHENNAI, Sept 12 (OneWorld) - Animal sacrifice is banned in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but popular demand helps the practice to continue, as was proved last week when police seized nearly 4,000 animals meant for ritual slaughter in a famous village festival.
		On September 5, the police swooped down on a biennial mass animal sacrifice at a temple in Sirumalanji village 25 kilometers from Tirunelveli town.
		Animal sacrifice is an ancient tradition that has a devout following in Tamil Nadu's rural hinterland.
	us.oneworld.net /article/view/67959/1 (911 words)

	Animal Sacrifice in Christian Churches: Humane Religion Magazine Articles: Bible, love, compassion, peace, justice, ...
		A coalition of these priests claims that the hesitancy of Catholic leaders to give their blessing to animal sacrifices is simply another instance of the white colonial mentality that refuses to give proper respect to native practices.
		These priests are supported in their demand for sacrifices by Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Bloemfontein who asserts that "Animal sacrifice has a special place in the scheme of things and is celebrated in almost all African families.
		For him, killing animals in the churches is not sacrilegious, it is just another facet of the "incultration process." This process takes place when the Roman Church and Catholics in a given country try to find a suitable accommodation between church requirements and traditional practices of the native culture.
	www.all-creatures.org /hr/hrasacrificeinchurch.htm (961 words)

	Andrew Linzey, Animal Theology — Animal Sacrifices
		‘Animal sacrifice has a special place in the scheme of things and is celebrated in almost all African families,’ argues Archbishop Tlhagale.
		Christ’s ‘priesthood is a greater and more perfect one … the blood of his sacrifice is his own blood, not the blood of goats and bulls; and thus he has entered the sanctuary once and for all and secured an eternal deliverance’ (9:11-13, NEB).
		Animal sacrifice is literally a step backwards into a pre-Christian age.
	www.godandanimals.com /PAGES/edits/linzey/sacrifice.html (756 words)

	The Ritual of Animal Sacrifice
		Consequently, the Almighty ransomed Ishmael for the sacrifice of a ram and to commemorate this incident the ritual of sacrifice was instituted as a great tradition to be carried out on the same day each year.
		Animal sacrifice can also be offered as an optional act of worship other than on ‘Id. Consequently, when people asked about the ‘Aqiqah, the Prophet (sws) replied: ‘Anyone who wants to offer an animal for sacrifice on the birth of a child can do so’.
		In case of Nahar, the animal is made to stand and in case of Dhibh we lay it in the direction of the Baytullah.
	www.renaissance.com.pk /JanIslamiShari12y5.htm (1870 words)

	Animal Sacrifice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Animal sacrifice was a normal element in Judaism and most Pagan traditions in ancient times.
		In the the religions of the African Diaspora, ebo (animal sacrifice) is normative.
		Animal sacrifice is a central practice in African diasporic religions, which include the Santeria, Voodoo, Palo Mayombe, and Candomble.
	paganinstitute.org /PIR/animal_sacrifice.htm (659 words)

	Greek Animal Sacrifice - History for Kids!
		Generally a sacrifice went something like this: somebody decided that he or she owed something to a god, or that he or she wanted something from a god.
		Many sacrifices were family matters, like if someone was sick, and perhaps one or two chickens might be sacrificed with the family standing around, and then the family would eat the chickens for dinner.
		Other sacrifices were larger: a goat, a sheep, or a pig, or even sometimes a cow.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/religion/sacrifice.htm (666 words)

	Latter Day Saints and Animal Sacrifice
		The daily sacrifices are not offered everywhere; nor the peace-offerings, nor the sacrifices appointed for sins and transgressions; but only at Jerusalem: nor in any place there, but only at the altar before the temple; that which is offered being first diligently examined by the high priest and the other minister as we before mentioned.
		As it is generally supposed that sacrifice was entirely done away with the great sacrifice was offered up—and that there will be no necessity for the ordinance of sacrifice in the future, but those who assert this, are certainly not acquainted with the duties, privileges and authority of the priesthood, or with the prophets.
		These sacrifices, as well as every ordinance belonging to the priesthood, will, when the Temple of the Lord shall be built, and the sons of Levi be purified, be fully restored and attended to, then all their powers, ramifications, and blessings.
	www.strangite.org /Offering.htm (7801 words)

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