Friday, January 8, 2010

The reference to the Carthaginians in the previous post, caused me to find in Wikipedia on Carthage, the following:

"Modern archeological excavations have been interpreted as confirming Plutarch's reports of Carthaginian child sacrifice.[24] In a single child cemetery called the Tophet by archaeologists, an estimated 20,000 urns were deposited between 400 BC and 200 BC, with the practice continuing until the early years of the Christian period. The urns contained the charred bones of newborns and in some cases the bones of fetuses and 2-year-olds. These remains have been interpreted to mean that in the cases of stillborn babies, the parents would sacrifice their youngest child. There is a clear correlation between the frequency of cremation and the well-being of the city. In bad times (war, poor harvests) cremations became more frequent, but it is not possible to know why. The correlation could be because bad times inspired the Carthaginians to pray for divine intervention (via child sacrifice), or because bad times increased child mortality, leading to more child burials (via cremation)."

Our aborted children are treated as detritus for the garbage dump. Why? Since Christianity has "deconstructed" religious justifications for the sacrifice of innocents, such killing can only be continued when Christian interdicts are extirpated from conscience. Thus does hostility to Christianity grow.

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