{"id":1317,"date":"2013-03-02T22:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2020-08-24T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:47:34","slug":"a-thought-about-religious-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/a-thought-about-religious-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"A thought about religious slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/palang_ly_calf_2c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2713 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/palang_ly_calf_2c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"710\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/palang_ly_calf_2c.png 710w, https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/palang_ly_calf_2c-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupyforanimals.org\/ban-religious-slaughter-throughout-europe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ban religious slaughter in the European Union &#8211; Occupy for Animals<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/en-GB\/petitions\/ban-religious-slaughter-in-the-european-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PETITION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What upsets me specifically about religious slaughter is that it&#8217;s done on behalf of a religion, on behalf of a god. When our messed up society, our morally derailed society craves for dead corpses of tortured nonhumans I can say, well of course, our society is totally unethical, they don&#8217;t respect animals and basically also not humans, and not nature. What counts in our society is good old greed and profit.<\/p>\n<p>But when a religion teaches its adherents that you ought to slaughter, then that what should stand for the sanctity of phenomena &#8211; the act of religion \/ being religious, having created religion &#8211; turns into the total negation, and really the TOTAL negation of life and of the value of life.<\/p>\n<p>If people can&#8217;t respect other animals because the natural sciences have designed an explanatory model that puts humans of top of everything biologically, then that&#8217;s one thing, but if religion degrades life and tries to sell its lies of &#8220;love&#8221; then the world stands upside down.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why some people respect religion more than life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ban religious slaughter in the European Union &#8211; Occupy for Animals,\u00a0PETITION What upsets me specifically about religious slaughter is that it&#8217;s done on behalf of a religion, on behalf of a god. When our messed up society, our morally derailed society craves for dead corpses of tortured nonhumans I can say, well of course, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,86,72],"tags":[57,37,39,51,56,30,66,40,70],"class_list":["post-1317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonhuman-dignity","category-nonhuman-rights-nonhuman-cultures","category-biologistic-speciesism","tag-all-leben","tag-antispeciesism","tag-closed-belief-systems","tag-critical-of-humancentrism","tag-environmental-ethics","tag-morality-and-ethics","tag-nonhuman-rights","tag-religious-warfare","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simorgh.de\/objects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}