The result was a tempest. I cited Thomas Cahill's work "How the Irish Saved Civilization" for the human sacrifice angle and that got me lots of invective but no good refutations of his data.
People don't think of or are not aware of the darkness that is involved with these practices and who is ultimately worshipped - and it's not the Creator. It's the created.
Actually, I am surprised that there are not more examples of this sort these days.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
I saw a commercial last night for kids to place tattoos on their tongues.....superficially of course, but what sort of advertiser encourages this? What happened to encouraging kids to learn to read, write and do arithmetic...of which few can do well lately.
In school when I learned about "the church" it was all negative. If you ever wonder why people view Christianity as such a bad thing, well it's because they have to come to that conclusion considering the facts they are given. I learned about the manor system, the Crusades, and never about Christianity's contributions to the world.
Amen.
Carolyn
That's the problem with debating religion, period. Invective is pretty much the pinacle of the debate. Few minds are ever changed. The older and wiser I become, the more I realize that if conversion is possible it has to come from love, not debate.
a wonderful book, highly recommended...
There are examples....we just don't hear about them in the MSM. I wouldn't doubt it if the woman that cut the baby from the mother's womb recently, was a practicing pagan. If you pay close attention to news stories during the soltices; there are just a few more stories about missing/murdered people.