Yes! Today happens to be a celebration (?) for Muslims the world over. Well if not a celebration, at least a holiday. A religious one. One in which we commemorate and emulate (?) the actions of Abraham and his son, either Isaac or Ishmael, whichever one you prefer. It's called Eid ul-Adha? Eid al-Adha? Idul Adha? Again, you choose.
It's very interesting, you know, we turn slaughter and bloodshed into a religious festival that survives to this day and age. Not only Muslims, mind, Jews do it too, I think. Or at least they used to do it. Christians do it too, at Easter, only they substitute a man in place of the multitude of animals. And they don't kill a man every Good Friday, they only remember the event. But the point still stands, blood is still the currency for salvation.
But it hasn't always been like that, right? It could have been otherwise. I mean, imagine a world where once or twice a year we gather at mosques or churches or synagogues or any other type of shrine, and instead of purchasing (at not so cheap a price) and subsequently killing thousands of innocent and kosher/halal animals and shedding all their blood in one bloody day, we just have an enormous ORGY? Sumerian-style, maybe?
I mean, it doesn't even have to be communal adultery or fornication, just... A LOT of married couples having sex side by side, right?
Fun!
Oh, and a happy birthday to my cousin, age 14, who won't (and shouldn't) be reading this anyway.
* If you are religious and you feel offended by this, or are nonreligious but feel offended anyway, well, it was not my intention to insult you. So I suppose it is excusable. But for good measure, I'll apologize as well. Sorry.
