Dead pig, chickens dumped along busy Florida street may be ritual sacrifice, cops say

The carcasses, which included a pig and chickens, were found June 7 in a trash bag “behind the Emerald Cove community sign,” according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Cape Coral is about [13]0 miles southeast of Tampa.

“appears to be an act of Santeria,”

Santeria followers are known to practice ritual animal sacrifice, which is permitted under Florida Statutes “to protect freedom of religion.”

“Santería is a syncretic religion based significantly in the traditions of the Yoruba and incorporating elements of Catholicism. Today, roughly 70 percent of Cubans observe one or more Santeria or other religious practices based in an African tradition,” according to the commission.

8 June 2022

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To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

https://biblehub.com/isaiah/1-11.htm

Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1: 13-14

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