Eid al-Adha

It was very much a tradition and the expected thing to

do in the society that circulated within the differing 

cultures of those days. Sacrificing your first born or 

your most loved. Human sacrifice.

Ibrahim and Ishmael or if you prefer the other variant

of the story, Abraham and Isaac, enter into this

sacrificial scenario only to discover that the One God

does not require human sacrifice, so a goat is sacrificed

instead.

Of course, there could just as easily be another

interpretation of the events which is no less holy,

namely, Ibrahim(Abraham) understood that it was 

not in the power of a human being to

destroy God's gift of life to another whatever the 

religious or philosophical arguments!

What a problem! To honour tradition or to honour

the sanctity of life.

Well if these stories mean anything at all,they 

most surely mean that to honour a tradition in 

the knowledge that we destroy another God 

given life...... is about as far from holiness and

the One God as it is possible to get.

Upholding tradition has it's limitations in respect

of respect for God and respect for God given life!

Better to sacrifice the cantankerous goat of

inhuman tradition.

Eid al-Adha

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