ANIMAL SACRIFICE
The Durga Puja festival which precedes Diwali in early October in the Hindu calendar is a time of conspicuous blood-letting in both India and Nepal. In Katmandu, the Daily Telegraph reported that public squares and temple forecourts ‘ran red’ as thousands of buffalo and other animals were ritually beheaded in an attempt to appease the demon goddess Durga. The goddess is depicted with lethal weapons in her ten hands, and is said to delight in ‘wine, flesh and sacrifice’. Goats, ducks, pigeons and chickens are routinely sacrificed to Durga despite a report from the Times of India (16th October 2010) that pumpkins and cucumbers are replacing animals today in some places in Bengal.
The ritual sacrifice of a horse, known as ‘ashwamedha’ is carried out less publicly. When done in accordance with the vedic ‘scriptures’, a woman assuming the role of the queen commits an unspeakable act of bestiality with the horse, which is killed amid drugged chants and shouts, then roasted and eaten. The horse is selected the year before, and preparations for the ritual of the sacrifice take up three full days.
HUMAN SACRIFICE TODAY
Human sacrifice is referred to in the Hindu ‘Veda’ scriptures as ‘purushamedha’. The victims were often members of defeated tribes in the early days. Human sacrifice is especially powerful in ritual magic – the Bible records an incident in 2 Kings 3:27, when the pagan king of Moab offered his own son as a sacrifice against the invading Israelites, and unleashed a spiritual power which temporarily repulsed them.
In India today, most human sacrifice is carried out in secret to appease Kali, another form of the goddess Parvathi. Kali means ‘darkness’, so she is depicted as a black-faced woman with four arms, holding a noose, a skull-topped staff, a blood-soaked sword, and a severed head. Her mouth drips blood, she has a necklace of skulls, and she is treading on the prostrate form of her husband, Shiva. She has an insatiable appetite for human blood. The Christian belief that God has offered Himself in Jesus as a sacrifice, once for all time, to take away the sins of whoever, by the grace of God, puts his faith and trust in Christ’s redeeming work, is totally opposed to the Hindu belief in gods who are never satisfied with however much human blood is spilt. Despite this, a Hindu writer claims: “Kali is the goddess who takes away darkness. She cuts down all impurities, consumes all iniquities, purifies Her devotees with the sincerity of Her Love.”
According to Time Magazine, (Time Asia, 29/07/2002) just 200 years ago, a boy was killed every day at a Kali temple in Calcutta. The Time story centred on the very recent proven ritual sacrifice of a 15-year-old virgin, Manju Kumari. Chanting mantras to Kali, a man named Khudu Karmakar “hacked off her hands, breasts and left foot, placing the body parts in front of a photograph of a blood-soaked Kali idol.” Police said the victim, who was killed with the assistance of Karmakar’s wife, daughter and three others, bled to death within minutes. Human sacrifice is condemned in the Bible:
Jer. 7:31-32: And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
BRAHMIN CHILDREN EXEMPTED
Atapur police are currently recording one ritual murder each month, as sacrifice and sorcery gain in popularity. Agence France Press (14/11/1997) reported that a father cut off his own son’s head in an offering to Kali, and claimed that hundreds of young boys and virgin girls are sacrificed every month to loving Kali. Indian parents try to keep their children indoors during October. Life is cheap under Hinduism.
The use of girls in sacrifice outnumbers boys today and is another example of female infanticide. It is said by some priests that a sacrifice to Kali guarantees the birth of a son. By offering a girl to Kali, a devotee can swop a daughter for a son. It should be noted that Brahmin children are exempted by the Vedas from sacrifice, and sacrificial children are taken from lower castes.
Bihar’s police chief J. Sahay said: “We have tried our best to curb human sacrifices, but what can an agency do when an entire village chooses a victim and cuts off his head with his parent’s consent?” Bihar’s famous lawyer, Urnkant Chaturvedi, said that “Human sacrifice under our law is treated as murder, but the killer- never found – is always the local high priest.” He continues, “at times the local policemen are reluctant to take action because of the inbred fear of the gods and goddesses.”
God speaks through the prophet Isaiah to the “sons of the sorceress”: Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks (Isa. 57:5) In a reminder of the stone idols of Shiva worship, God continues: Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? (Isa. 57:6) And again, by the mouth of Micah: Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Micah 6:7-8)
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