Human Sacrifice Was Rarer Than Thought

ABC Science News ^ | 7-22-2004 | Anna Salleh

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[knarf]

The Bible is the truth.

[maestro]

A family 'banking' ritual?

[epigone73]

We have all seen far to many instances of human sacrifice these days; homicide bombing, decapitations, murders, mutilations, and mayhem of every sort, all "sanctified" and given concrete, if twisted, religious purpose with the cry of "allahu akhbar!"

in ancient times, these people's ancestors worshipped Moloch, Baal, and a pantheon of evil; the name has changed, but the underlying spilling of blood, which is a demonic purpose in itself, has not.

[Dysart]

in ancient times, these people's ancestors worshipped Moloch, Baal, and a pantheon of evil; the name has changed, but the underlying spilling of blood, which is a demonic purpose in itself, has not.

Did you read the article? They have found an ancient family burial site here; setting aside that very crucial detail, we cannot ascribe our current values to a society that existed 3000 years ago.

[epigone73]

Did you read the article?

Yes, yes i did. i was attempting to use this piece of archeological information in order to throw into sharp relief that even early man did not practice the savagery all too common in today's world.

The people about whose ancestors I spoke are, naturally, the practitioners of the religion of peace.

the Talmud teaches that everywhere you look, there is something to see; i was using this article to see other things.

[drhogan]

man, more BAD news!
let's fix this--we gotta get out there and INREASE human sacrifices! it's for the children!

[RightWhale]

Baal and Moloch were maybe not worshipped so much as enticed or appeased and in regions farther south and east. True, the moderns seem to have some Molochites among them.

[SunkenCiv]

Too bad their newspapers didn't survive. ;')

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[ValerieUSA]

Are you looking in the obits again, civ? Trying to see if rumors of your death have been greatly exaggerated?

[nopardons]

I hate to inject yet another dissident voice here,but oh well..........

The BOG PEOPLE,many of whom were indeed ritual human sacrifices,were men,women and from different age groups;excepting babies and tiny children.

[wardaddy]

no...I did not read the whole article but it sounds like more of this revisionist stuff about primitives being more noble and all that.

who was it who got in hot water about declaring the Anasazi (sic) and their cannibalism?

or all this talk about no cannibalism in Africa yet we are seeing it even today in west and central African insurgency wars.

now, if science purports that the ancients of western civilization are being discovered to be less civilized, or stole their innovation from non-whites or were more barbaric etc. then being all the more primitive is encouraged.

I trust very little science from any university anymore that has even the most remote social consequence to it. They all seem to declare a desired outcome to suit their always leftist multicultural anti-west/christian/caucazoid bias and then look for the evidence to support that even if they must fabricate.

[SunkenCiv]

My death. Pah. I'm in perfect- eeaaaahhhh!

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[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, thanks, good point IMHO. I was gonna post the link, but then figured I was gonna go to bed right away... as we pass 3:30 AM.

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[SunkenCiv]

I did not read the whole article but it sounds like more of this revisionist stuff about primitives being more noble and all that.

That was my impression as well. It's the Wonderful World of Disney version of ancient times, built to service some nationalist jingoist political movements. Zahi Hawass, Mark Lehner, et al insist there was never slavery in ancient Egypt.

[elli1]

I did read the entire article. Very interesting stuff, Blam. Thanx for posting it.

[blam]

"who was it who got in hot water about declaring the Anasazi (sic) and their cannibalism?"

That was Christy Turner at Arizona State University...He proved it after finding a human corpolite containing human protein, etc.

[Question_Assumptions]

Stephen Leblanc also got quite a bit of flack, like the Turners, for suggesting warfare among the Anasazi. I highly recommend Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization on the topic of the noble savage myth. But just like it's important not to ignore violence where it happened. it's also important not to imagine violence where it wasn't. If the evidence shows that these weren't sacrifices, that's fine, too. Archaeologists need to try to interpret what's really there rather than what they want to see.

[RUCKUS INC.]

"we cannot ascribe our current values to a society that existed 3000 years ago"

Really? Why not? How far back can we go and still ascribe our values to a culture?