Nietzsche and the cow's tongue

I read a very disturbing news item today. While at work i came upon a hate crime article regarding two employees being threatened with a cow's tongue by some of their co-workers. The scheme was to warn and to harass these two santeria-practicing employees by displaying a stabbed cow's tongue on a tree outside their office, which in cult terms is symbolic of death.

Before the real fire spreads, because the two had pressed charges, the employer settled out of court with a hefty compensation and none were asked to resign, including one of the supervisor's involved.

I cringed after the fact because i initially made fun of the by-line "Cash Cow", and then as i read the narrative i realized it was no laughing matter at all.

Not being very familiar with the santeria rituals, i cannot but be assaulted by the mental picture of a bloody cow's tongue nailed to a tree by a knife, with who knows what else drip at its tip.

But nothing strikes deeply on my conscience than the guilt that i did not respect the freedom of spirituality in general. When you are as indifferent with religion as i am, and yet you know you are guided by a mysterious spirituality, even though you don't really heed nor acknowledge its presence, you will (perhaps as loud a slap on your face as on me) awaken to a shame and regret that makes you feel "scandalizingly" spiritual all of a sudden.

Believe it or not i hear Nietzsche shouting: "Your moral defense is weakening"; but its true though that i stepped upon that cow's tongue like it is the head of that snake, which make me amoral for a moment, but immoral and suffering for as long as my memory and emotions are intertwined.