Does this make sense?

Normally, I try to keep myself away from criticizing any religion. I believe it is a very personal thing and we must not judge others... but... something has been bothering me the last few days, hence this post.

There was a religious festival of another community last week where millions and millions of animals are slaughtered in the name of god. I find that offensive and downright wrong. So, the next day, I, S and D are in the break room at work having our usual afternoon tea when another colleague SM walks in. He seems to be in a very cheerful mood. Without any warning he kicks off the following conversation.

SM: So, yesterday was our festival and I went and sacrificed a goat.

All of us are shocked.

Me: Really? You actually killed a goat.
SM (boastfully): Yes, I killed it myself. I will get a lot of good credit on judgement day.
S: Why do you do this?

SM goes ahead and and explains the story.

We are all shocked hearing this incident but SM is oblivious of all that.

Now, here is what I find offensive. How can you go and kill/sacrifice a living being in the name of god. A poor helpless animal is killed so that on some judgement day, god will bless you. You got it all wrong dude. Go do something good for a living being (animal, human) and maybe god will be happy with you. And darn it, if you are so hell bent on pleasing god and must sacrifice something, go ahead and sacrifice yourself...not some poor helpless animal.

There, I have it out of my system now. I know I might have seriously offended people of another community but I sincerely believe that humanity and compassion is above all religions. If my religion were to tell me to go take someone's life, I would point blank refuse to do it. Sometimes, we all fail to use common sense.