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What Are Your Views of Animal Sacrifice?

I personally am against animal sacrifice.

I feel that there is a place for hunting in people's lives and eating meat.

But what my Gods say to me about this is as follows.

My Gods command that I hunt or starve to death.

My Gods do not command me to offer a life to them. They can sustain themselves.

Nor do I thank the dead animal for giving its life to me. The animal would rather have lived.

Instead, I feel that the herd is thanking me for weeding out its old and sick to make it a stronger herd.

Native American people do have a hunting code. They don't hunt during mating season and they don't over hunt.

Because animal sacrifice violates a lot of animal cruelty laws in many countries, I do not feel that we as Pagans should openly teach animal sacrifice to people.

It could land us all in a lot of trouble regardless of what our individual beliefs on the subject are.

This is the main reason I was banned from another forum and came here. I was banned for opposing the public promotion of animal sacrifice by one of their members.

A few regulars here on WitchSchool should keep this in mind while trying to participate on that forum more. I have already heard from one regular about her beliefs and they are similar to mine.

What do your deities tell you about Animal Sacrifice?

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Permalink Reply by Mark Shadows on September 2, 2010 at 9:41am

As an avid hunter/fisher, I believe the animal killed should be respected. Do to them as you need, and if not only what you would expect in return. I highly doubt any of my animals back home are going to fix me dinner, but I'm sure they love me knowing that I am not going to cut them open and bleed them out on my altar. If a God/dess asks for blood, you don't have to senselessly kill another spirits vessel, instead, try using ritual in hunting. Claim your trophy yet make use of every part you can...

Remember the rede :)

Purely my opinion!

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Permalink Reply by Benjamin on September 2, 2010 at 12:45pm

I agree 100% with you - I dont hunt, I never will, I dont even fish... I find it barbaric and cruel. Yes I do eat meat, but its 20% of my diet and I try where possible to use only free range or organic... at least they had a better life and a peaceful death. Like you I dont thank a dead animal for offering its life... its arrogant of a human to think they wanted to die...