Gadhimai returns

[Catherine]

Quote:The concept that killing an innocent animal will somehow placate or even please a deity is so crude and wrong. If they want to please some deity, they would do better to help some suffering animals in need of care and/or medical attention.

Quote:I agree, LPC. Cruelty and causing suffering is not pleasing to any Soul, and there is so much damage to the one who does those things.

Love, kindness and compassion are the things we should all strive for as they elevate the Soul, and those to whom the kindness is given..

Any so called deity that would be pleased by the killing of an animal is not worthy of our respect let alone our worship.
Why would they think that the worst of human behavior would impress anyone.

The damage to the ones doing the killing or witnessing it, is beyond measure. Look at the faces of the butchers. You can see the damage to their spirits in their eyes and their whole demeanor. Exposing a child to this brutality would do harm that may be irreversible. A whole lifetime of atoning with acts of love and goodness might not be able to bring peace to someone damaged by such an experience.

I don't like to think that anyone is beyond hope, but I doubt that the butchers can be rehumanized and their spirits restored.
They have gone so far from goodness that it is no longer possible for them. Something would have to shock them from their ways.
I can't imagine anything strong enough to overcome their vicious blood lust.

This level of brutality in some way damages all of us. If knowing of goodness uplifts us, then knowing about evil brings us down.
For the sake of all of us, human and animal, this must be stopped.