>>18254667Why were Catholics doing up to the 1500s?
Because the Torah had not been written in Alexandria first
Same reason the Romans were.
>>18254808The Romans destroyed Carthage for sacrificing humans. Human sacrifice is mostly confined to brown people and c*lts.
>>18254667We are still sacrificing people. Hard pill to swallow because we pretend it is something different (abortion, execution, military draft, euthonasia...) and that's complete farcial nonsense.
>>18254827Executing someone for committing a capital crime is not the same as ritually sacrificing innocent people by throwing them into a fire pit.
>>18254832Perhaps he meant to include all these weird killings that seem like they were setup on purpose, and called it execution rather than ritualistic murders.
>>18254832Ok. Now do abortion.
>>18254821>The Romans destroyed Carthage for sacrificing humans.Did you know that during the Perusine War (41-40 BCE) after the surrender of Perusia (modern day Perugia) Octavian ordered 300 Perusine senators and equestrians be executed at the altar of the deified Julius Caesar as a human sacrifice to him?
Had any civilization actually abandoned human sacrifice as early as 300 BC? I feel like it was pretty universal back then
>>18255106In the Histories of Herodotus, written in the 430s BCE at book 2 chapter 45 he mentions a legend he had heard from Greeks about a time Heracles visited Egypt, and the Egyptians tried to sacrifice him to Zeus but he killed his captors and escaped.He says he finds this story to be preposterous because human sacrifice is incompatible with the Egyptian religion.From the Henry Cary translation>but the Grecians say many other things on this subject inconsiderately; for instance this is a silly story of theirs which they tell of Hercules: that, "when he arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians, having crowned him with a garland, led him in procession, as designing to sacrifice him to Jupiter, and that for some time he remained quiet, but when they began the preparatory ceremonies upon him at the altar, he set about defending himself, and slew every one of them." Now the Greeks who tell this story appear to me to be utterly ignorant of the character and customs of the Egyptians; for how can they who are forbidden to sacrifice any kind of animal, except swine, and such bulls and calves as are without blemish, and geese, sacrifice human beings? Moreover, since Hercules was but one, and besides, a mere man, as they confess, how is it probable that he should slay many thousands? And in thus speaking of them may I meet with indulgence both from gods and heroes.Archeological evidence would seem to support this view that human sacrifice was not a practice in Ancient Egypt long before 300 BCE. The only evidence of human sacrifice (as opposed to secular civil or military executions) is in early dynastic royal burials where slaves appear to have been killed so they could be buried with the king, but this was abandoned at the end of the 1st dynasty before 2900 BCE. Egypt didn't really become the great ancient civilization we think of until the third dynasty a few centuries later.
>>18255119The Egyptians are the only people I've ever studied in decades of sperging with no tradition of human-sacrifice. The closest we have is an old Muslim rumor about "the bride of the Nile" and Muslim history is notoriously inaccurate (i.e. all the Arabs in the time of Muhammad were pagan despite the crosses on their coins and Nestorian church records.) I suspect it's the early influence of Abraham of Joseph/Imhotep because it is odd. Even the Romans buried Gauls in the marketplace during times of calamity.
>>18254821Romans would say this but they themselves would sacrifice prisoners of war to the gods during a triumph.
>>18254821You silly sausage. Perhaps read some actual Roman history.
>>18254667Reminder white Frenchman and Germans were having bonfires of Cats (yes, Garfield the cat) as a form of entertainment. Not even Haitians due that shit
>>18254821Anon, I invite you to google Jupiter Latiaris/Latialis.
>>18255119>>18255129I didn't know this. Thanks anon.River god/bride sacrifices are attested in China and Japan, I wonder if some Arabs heard of the practice but mixed up the location.
>>18255522>Not even Haitians due that shitNo, they just eat them.
>>18254821According to Tacitus the Germanic peoples practiced human sacrifice>“Above all other gods they worship Mercury, to whom they are permitted to offer human sacrifices to on certain days. Hercules and Mars they appease by sacrificing animals.”
>>18256205It is far more humane to simply consume an animal for sustenance rather than torture it for your entertainment. Something was not quite rifht with whitey until very recently, and even then whitey is the race most inclined for bizarre sexual and violent fetishism. Yeshu could only do so much
>>18255522And Romans crucified dogs yearly
>>18257462>Yeshu could only do so muchGive His name the "A." It's the same as Joshua in the Septuagint.
>>18257478Source
>>18258830Supplicia canum>In the same procession, geese were decorated in gold and purple and carried in honor. Ancient sources who explain the origin of the supplicia say that the geese were honored for saving the city during the Gallic siege of Rome. When the Gauls launched a nocturnal assault by stealth on the citadel, the geese raised a noisy alarm. The failure of the watchdogs to bark was thereafter ritually punished each year.
>>18254667Christians worship human sacrifice, and a huge section of them believe that they're taking part in cannibalism.
>>18258896I still remember being an altar server picturing the Church Father quote where it says that you should imagine the Eucharist as the slain baby Jesus being offered up to God. I wish I could find it.
>>18254667>GreekI don't think you understand what human means, anon.
>>18258953The Greek text does in fact indicate human sacrifice, so you are either Jewish or don't know Greek. Which is it?
