How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

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How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

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RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?

November 30, 2017 at 11:24 am (This post was last modified: November 30, 2017 at 11:26 am by Angrboda.)

(November 30, 2017 at 9:33 am)Industrial Lad Wrote: Also, why does(did?) god like animals killed and burned in his name? You would think an all powerful being would find better things than that to be impressed by.

It's a form of sympathetic magic. In those times, blood was synonymous with life, the essence of a living being. By ritually sacrificing and burning the flesh, you thereby transfer the power of the animals blood, its life force, to the deity to whom it is sacrificed. It's like giving the equivalent of gold in terms of what an entity that is spirit would desire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_magic

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