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Ancient Baby Graveyard Not for Child Sacrifice, Scientists Say
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| 9-19-2012
| Tia Ghose
Posted on 09/20/2012 1:09:45 PM PDT by Renfield
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:10:04 PM PDT
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Renfield
To: Renfield; SunkenCiv
.... for your consideration.
To: SunkenCiv
Carthage burial grounds called Tophet holds urns with the cremated remains of thousands of babies. While some say Tophet is a site of child sacrifice, others contend it was used to bury babies and fetuses.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:14:24 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
To: Renfield
Wow! They had Planned Parenthood way back then?
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:16:21 PM PDT
by
dblshot
(Insanity: electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
To: Renfield
At least they recognized that a fetus was a baby and deserving of burial. Here we just rinse unwanted children down the garbage disposal or fling them in the dumpster.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:28:30 PM PDT
by
informavoracious
(Abortions are unproductive wrongs, not reproductive rights.)
To: Renfield
The Greeks and Romans would decide whether a baby was worthy and if not, leave it out somewhere to die. Its called “exposure”.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:31:54 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Renfield
They worshipped Moloch, a fake “god” so awful he’s mentioned in the Torah; chief attribute they sacrified babies to it.
I’ll go for “contemporary accounts” vs. counter-intuitive balooney trying to make the Bible look bad for $100 Alex.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:37:21 PM PDT
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:38:29 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: informavoracious
The Greeks and Romans didn’t
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:39:44 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: informavoracious
That’s a great tag line. May I quote that?
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:41:52 PM PDT
by
Renfield
(Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
To: Renfield
re: cremated remains of thousands of babies, young goats and lambs
So, they find the cremated remains of babies with goats, and lambs. And we are supposed to believe that the Carthaginians, who were reported in the Bible to practice child sacrifice to their pagan gods, weren’t really sacrificing anything. They were just participating in sacred burial rituals for all the babies and animals that routinely died.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:47:21 PM PDT
by
Nevadan
To: Renfield
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:47:49 PM PDT
by
informavoracious
(Abortions are unproductive wrongs, not reproductive rights.)
To: NYer
For a time I lived in Cadiz, Spain. Cadiz is perhaps the oldest continuously occupied city in western Europe having been founded 3,000 years ago by the Phoenicians and occupied ever since. This was the same gang that founded Carthage. In the city is a beautiful plaza the locals called Plaza Flores, the plaza of the flowers. It is full of stands selling bright fresh flowers and others selling the specialty of Cadiz, a medly of fried fish.
Curiously, looking up you will see that the official name is Plaza Topete. Like the location cited in the article here, it was originally the location of a Phoenician temple (tophet) from which it gets it's name. At the site there were the remains of numerous infants. The oral history say this was where the Phoenicians would sacrifice their first born child. Not surprisingly, the citizens prefer to call it the place of flowers rather than by that gruesome reference.
I note the skepticism in the article about human sacrifice, I only note that the site in the article is not unique in reputation.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:53:37 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Who is John Galt?)
To: Renfield
Lots of Archaeologists like to discourage the belief in human sacrifice.
Many people have made careers spinning that the Aztecs and Maya didn’t practice human sacrifice, and that it was all Spanish lies.
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:04:08 PM PDT
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Shadow44
To: Renfield; momtothree; NYer
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:05:12 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Renfield
A burial site for a baby, apart from that of the family into which it was born? Uummm. Credulous creature that I am, why of course those “scientists” must right!
To: GeronL
Dear Leader calls them burdens.
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:15:07 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: dblshot
Wow! They had Planned Parenthood way back then?
My Thoughts exactly
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:19:52 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(Yes, Obama, I had help with my business. MY CUSTOMERS!)
To: pepsi_junkie
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09/20/2012 4:27:20 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/20/2012 4:27:43 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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