Sunday, 22 November 2009

On Human Sacrifice

What is human sacrifice and who practices it? Throughout history, there have been stories and evidence of cultures killing people to appease the gods they worshiped, often as part of a ritual. And yet do these ritual killings still go on? During the late 70s to the early 90s there was scandal after scandal supposedly exposing human sacrifices among “satanic cults”. Stories of people, many of them children or even babies murdered to please the Christian devil. And yet, the ones making these claims often have human sacrifice approved in their sacred texts. An example is the biblical story of Jephthah, the story of a man chosen to liberate the Israelites from the rule of the Ammonites who vows to the Judaeo-Christian god that if he is victorious he will sacrifice whom greets him first when he returned home. His daughter greeted him and he killed her and burnt her body. The New Testament book Hebrews would later regard Jephthah as a hero of faith among David, Samson and Samuel.


But does human sacrifice still happen to this day? Even to this day, there are those willing to kill for their gods, in hopes of securing a place in post death paradise. Perhaps the most known example was the atrocity known simply by the date of the event, September 11th. Here zealots sacrificed not only themselves, but countless innocent lives to their god. Other examples include the murder of abortion doctors, the murder of homosexual people.


A word of advice to those who indulge in the myth of SRA. Look at your own past, hell just look at the news. You have blood on your own hands.

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