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Modern Hinduism forbids eating cow meat, yet multiple Hindu scriptures sanction cow sacrifices and eating cow meat. This is an incoherent religion.

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 2.1.16a (trans. Stephanie Jamison and Joel Brereton)
>The patrons—those who dispatch to the praisers a gift tipped with cows
>and ornamented with horses, o Agni—

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.85.13 (trans. Stephanie Jamison and Joel Brereton)
>Sūryā’s wedding proceeded, when Savitar set it going.
>In the Aghā’s the cows are killed; in the two Arjunī’s she is conveyed (to her new home).

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.86.13-14 (trans. Stephanie Jamison and Joel Brereton)
>13. [Indra:] “O wife of Vr̥ṣākapi [=Indrāṇī], rich, having good sons and daughters-in-law, Indra will eat your oxen and the dear oblation that brings about whatever (you want).”
>– Above all Indra!
>14. [Indra:] “For they cook fifteen, twenty oxen at a time for me.
>And I eat only the fat meat. They fill both my cheeks.”
>– Above all Indra!

Ṛgveda Saṃhitā 10.91.14a (trans. Stephanie Jamison and Joel Brereton)
>(For him) into whom horses, bulls, oxen, mated cows, rams, once released, are poured out [=offered],

Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 3.1.2.21 (trans. Julius Eggeling)
>21. He (the Adhvaryu) then makes him enter the hall. Let him not eat (the flesh) of either the cow or the ox; for the cow and the ox doubtless support everything here on earth. […] Nevertheless Yâgñavalkya said, 'I, for one, eat it, provided that it is tender.'

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 6.4.18 (trans. Valerie Roebuck)
>If someone wishes, ‘May a learned, famous son be born to me, one who goes to assemblies, a speaker of well-received words! May he learn all the Vedas! May he live a full span!’, the couple should have rice-and-meat cooked and eat it with ghee: and they will be able to have one – with meat from a bull-calf or a bull.

Āpastamba Dharmasūtra 1.17.30-31 (trans. Patrick Olivelle)
>It is permitted to eat the meat of milch cows and oxen. A text of the Vājasaneyins states: ‘The meat of oxen is fit for sacrifice.’

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