3 Men Arrested After Offering Human Sacrifice to Goddess
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, April 24, 2010, 11:07 PM
Kali
Three Indian men were arrested for killing and beheading a man. The head for adorned with flowers and was thought to be part of a human sacrifice to the goddess Kali.
Digital Journal reported:
Police in Eastern India have arrested three men in connection to a beheading that is thought to be part of a human sacrifice to the goddess Kali.
The nude, decapitated body of a male factory worker was found in a section of a temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali in West Bengal, India. His head was smeared with red vermilion and had flowers and incense sticks surrounding it.
“Three men, all in their late 30s, have been arrested in connection with the beheading, District police chief Rabindranath Mukherjee told Sky News.
Two of the arrested men work in a factory where the victim once worked and the third man was a local laborer.
“We heard that incidents of human sacrifice by tantriks in different temples of the goddess Kali in Birbhum were common over a century ago,” a priest named Utpal Bhattacharya said.
The priest went on to explain that the Birbhum district of West Bengal is considered a center of energy and power in Hindu mythology.
In March, a married couple in Western India were arrested for allegedly killing five young boys after a mystic told them it would help the wife conceive.
And in September last year, police in Northern India arrested four people after a nine-year-old boy was kidnapped and murdered in a case of suspected human sacrifice.
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wanumba commented:
Been trying to tell people for years that just because Hindus are vegetarians doesn’t mean they are all wussy, totally harmless people.
JT commented:
…wow.
ahem commented:
This is not all Hindus; this is a sect, aka “thugees”. Colorful history in 19th century India.
Mats commented:
This goes to show that not all religious nuts are like the pamphlet-giving, street-preaching, door-knocking, creationism-defending evangelicals.
There are some weird religions out there and it’s important to distinguish them from Christianity, something that many atheists are not willing to do.
Mal commented:
Where’s Indiana Jones and Short Round when you need them?
Andreas K. commented:
Hmm, an active Kali cult. Who’d have thought.
Mats, which “Christianity”? The one that had the witch trials, where thousands of women were murdered? Or the one that still performs exorcisms, where, sometimes, people die, like in the case of Anneliese Michel?
Or the one inspired by Jesus, which is all but forgotten today, thanks to the hunger for power and wealth among the leaders?
DMartyr commented:
Wow, one human sacrifice by Hindus makes the media.
Muslims do human sacrifices every day of the week but we barely hear a word about it in the media…
Simon commented:
They’re being led by Eleanor Bron and Leo McKern, somebody’d better go tell Ringo.
Arch commented:
Until the Brits outlawed it in 1829s, Indians widely practiced Sati – the ritual live burning of widows on her husband’s funeral pyres.
When the Governor General told the locals they would no longer be permitted to force wives to be cremated alive, they objected, saying it was an ancient Hindu custom.
He told them that his country had an ancient custom that those who burned people alive were hanged.
“Build your pyre and next it we will build a gallows. You practice your custom and we shall practice ours.”
I do miss the British Empire.
Joanne commented:
In the Bible it speaks about people being possessed with evil spirits, and I would take a wild guess here to state that these people are evil.
Arch – I miss the British Empire too.
ER commented:
heh, this is the goddess that Obama worships (not kidding)
Sibyl West commented:
The goddess Kali is the nihilistic face of material nature. Matter is yielding and obeys the laws and constraints of God. Destruction is intrinsic to material cycles.
True religion is the process of loving the Supreme God and serving Him. But religion covered by sinful desire becomes tainted by lower, evil modes. And unfortunate people are inclined to superstition and being led astray by self interested “mystics” and churchmen.
Not all paths lead to the same destination.
Arch and Andreas have also made some good points above.
Scott commented:
Andreas K. – the Salem witch trials resulted in 20 executions. “Thousands” is a gross exaggeration repeated by ignorant and hate-filled individuals with a “too good to check” mentality.