On 29/11/2014 09:48, Derek wrote:> On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:21:01 -0800,
wrote:
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>>>> The ancient Vedic text of the Manu-samhita (5.45-8) says,
>>>> "He who injures innoxious beings from a wish to give
>>>> himself pleasure never finds happiness, neither living
>>>> nor dead. He who does not seek to cause the suffering of
>>>> bonds and death to living creatures, but desires the good
>>>> of all beings, obtains endless bliss. . . Meat can never
>>>> be obtained without injury to living creatures, and
>>>> injury to sentient beings is detrimental to the
>>>> attainment of heavenly bliss; let him therefore shun the
>>>> use of meat."
>>>
>>> Yeah, well, maybe you ought to learn just how cruel your religion
really is.
>>> http://dailym.ai/1tyw9tZ
>>
>> Sweet mother of ****. Those pictures are shocking beyond words.
>
> I've never seen such callous cruelty, and if I hadn't seen those
pictures of
> all those grinning hindoos hacking at the necks and bodies of those
hundreds
> of thousands of peaceful, gentle young animals, I would find it
difficult
> to believe such horror exists in this world. Jai Maharaj goes to great
> lengths portraying hindoos as being respectful toward animals but, as
we can
> see by those pictures in that article, they are evil and repulsive toward
> them beyond belief. And just look at their grinning hindoo spectators
> covering every branch of every tree, often crouched on top of each other
> like bugs to get a better view; they're just as evil as the younger
hindoo
> barbarians carrying out the attacks.
>


You might try a little balance in future? While that practice is to my
mind barbaric, it's not at all representative of Hinduism, and
perpetrated elsewhere (secular and religious) many fold.

>> Religion is shit. There are plenty of vile irrational belief systems,
>> but religion is among the worst.
>
> I rejected the lies and all the manipulations that maintain religion when
> merely a young boy still struggling to master the 7 times table, and I've
> grown to detest it more and more ever since.
>

Is that 'religion', or the people that use and/or believe in it?--
Cheers, Rob