Human sacrifice in India

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[quote author=BBC News]India 'human sacrifice' suspected
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta

The severed head and torso of a man has been found in a temple in the Indian state of West Bengal in what the police say is a case of "human sacrifice".

The head and the body were found at the local temple to the goddess Kali near Chotomakdampur village in the western district of Birbhum.

Police say they have detained a tribal villager for questioning.

Human sacrifice is illegal in India. But a few cases do occur in remote and underdeveloped regions.

"This man has been sacrificed to propitiate the gods," said local official Kalyan Mukherjee.

"This is a shame for Bengal where the ruling Left coalition claim they have eradicated social evils and combated superstition," an opposition leader Samir Kumar Ray said.

Though human sacrifice has long been banned in India, some people, mostly the poor and illiterate, fall under the influence of "witch doctors" in the hope of reversing their fortunes.

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I just don’t buy that this was done to propitiate the gods. Seems to me more likely that is was for a psychopath’s self satisfaction.

 

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I just don’t buy that this was done to propitiate the gods. Seems to me more likely that is was for a psychopath’s self satisfaction.

Well, taking into account that the so called gods often act through psychopaths, it could very well be both, I think.

 

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[quote author=BBC News]India 'human sacrifice' suspected
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta

The severed head and torso of a man has been found in a temple in the Indian state of West Bengal in what the police say is a case of "human sacrifice".

The head and the body were found at the local temple to the goddess Kali near Chotomakdampur village in the western district of Birbhum.

Though human sacrifice has long been banned in India, some people, mostly the poor and illiterate, fall under the influence of "witch doctors" in the hope of reversing their fortunes.

Story from BBC NEWS:
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/8624269.stm

I just don’t buy that this was done to propitiate the gods. Seems to me more likely that is was for a psychopath’s self satisfaction.

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Yes, it is quite possible that he is psychopath. Once Gandhi mentioned that Poverty is the worst form of violence one can be subjected to. In this context what he means is poverty is related to ignorance from illiteracy and atrocities from myriad forms of discrimination , combined with intense emotional programming of obedience. Under those circumstances, any thing and every thing is possible. When people are fighting for filling for the stomach, one don't care about which god he is trying to appease ?