cow worship
Banjong Binkasan
One of the sacred things that humans have respected since ancient times is the cow. especially female cows In Babylonian archaeological excavations, statues of bulls made of cement and metal have also been found. The worship of cows has various origins and reasons.
Hindus revere the cow because they consider it to be the vehicle of Lord Shiva. In addition, Hindus still consider cows to be very beneficial animals for their livelihood. Because cows provide labor, milk, fertilizer and fuel from their dung, killing such a beneficent animal is considered ungrateful and sinful. In India, cows have many privileges in the streets where no one dares touch them.
Worshipers of Guan Yin do not eat beef because of beliefs that have various origins. Even some Kuan Yin nuns say that beef is actually not forbidden for Guan Yin worshippers. But some people don't eat beef because they see killing large animals as cruel. Therefore, I do not support killing by not eating beef.
But in Spain and some countries such as Mexico, bulls are trained to be ferocious in order to fight with matadors in bull rings and are eventually brutally killed. If you say that male cows are not important because they do not give milk. But if there is no breeding male bull Female cows also cannot become pregnant and produce heifers.
One verse of the Quran has an Arabic name: “Al-Baqarah” is translated into Thai as “heifer” because in this chapter there is a story about the children of Israel who went astray and worshiped a golden calf.
The story goes that when Prophet Moses (Moses) led hundreds of thousands of the children of Israel to migrate across the Red Sea. The children of Israel wandered for a long time in the desert. But in this time of hardship God has given these people many bounties, such as food from heaven called “manna,” which resembles sweet rubber pellets, and quail to eat to survive.
One day Moses was commanded by God to go up Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments (Torah), which were the laws for ordering the children of Israel. Before going up, Moses instructed his elder Aaron (or Harun) also to take care of the children of Israel for himself. The most important thing that Moses commanded Aaron was this: “See to it that the children of Israel do not worship anything other than the one God.”
During the forty days Moses ascended Mount Sinai. It appears that the children of Israel down there had been tricked by the Samiri people into fusing silver and gold ornaments to make a golden calf to worship as sacred.
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written. He saw that the children of Israel were in such a state of ignorance that they worshiped a golden calf. He immediately became extremely angry. The movie The Ten Commandments shows Moses being so angry that he threw the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments on the ground, causing them to break into pieces. But in the Quran, it is said that Moses went over and snatched his brother Aaron's beard out of anger that he had not stopped the children of Israel from worshiping the golden calf. Because doing so is considered a great sin. But Aaron insists that he tried to stop him. But you can't hold back the bigots.
For this reason, Moses ordered the children of Israel to send representatives with him to ask for God's forgiveness for their worship of calves instead of the true God.
It may be because of fear that in the future The children of Israel may have worshiped oxen. So during the time that Moses was alive So God appointed a rich man to be killed and left a large inheritance to his only son. But the deceased's relatives wanted an inheritance. So he killed his son and followed him. Another relative went to Moses to ask for help in finding the killer.
So Moses ordered the children of Israel to kill an ox, cut off the tail, and place it on the body of the slain man, and the corpse would reveal who the murderer was. But the children of Israel jokingly said to Moses, Moses said, “God forbid that we should do such foolish things,” and tried to deflect questions like “What age is the cow?” Moses replied. “I am neither young nor old. Go pick one.” Instead of following through. These brash people told Moses to ask God, “What color is the ox?” Moses answered, “Yellow.”
The thorny questions are not finished yet. Moses therefore concluded that the bull that was to be slaughtered must be a bull that had never been used and must be yellow all over, without any spots.
Now, simple things became difficult because of tricky questions. If you do it wrong from the beginning, it's over. Therefore, until you find a cow with these characteristics The children of Israel paid a high price for the oxen. It's difficult to get into textbooks. Very damaged, easily damaged
The story of the Children of Israel is told in the Quran to reveal the habit of these people constantly joking with God and His Prophet. They like to distort and make God's commands difficult. After Moses left this world The scribes of this group rewrote their own strange teachings in addition to the teachings of Moses, which even the slightest intellect could not accept as religious teachings when read.
And if the Jews build a new temple on the remains of the al-Aqsa mosque. One of the ceremonies these people had prepared was the sacrificing of a whole red cow.
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