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The expansion of Christian fundamentalism has now, I see from new books and internet videos, at last sparked an academic (at least) exposure of the Jesus myth and of the biblical mythology in general.
” The Real Case: The NarcosatanistsThe Victim: Mark Kilroy, a 21-year-old University of Texas student, was abducted during Spring Break in Matamoros, Mexico.The Cult: The drug-trafficking ring was led by Adolfo Constanzo, who practiced a blend of Palo Mayombe and black magic, rather than the folk saint Santa Muerte (which rose to widespread prominence later in the 1990s and 2000s).The Belief: Constanzo convinced his smuggler followers that human sacrifices and macabre rituals would grant them supernatural invisibility and protection from police bullets.The Raid and Discovery: Police stumbled upon the cult’s remote ranch (Rancho Santa Elena) more or less by accident after a routine drug checkpoint chase. On the property, officers uncovered the remains of 15 people, including Mark Kilroy, alongside signs of brutal ritual mutilation and animal sacrifices.Resolution of the CultThe End of Constanzo: Cornered by police in a Mexico City apartment building weeks later, Constanzo ordered a follower to shoot him and another associate dead to avoid capture.The Convictions: Surviving members, including co-leader Sara Aldrete (dubbed “The Godmother”), were captured and later sentenced to lengthy prison terms.”
Those why buy cannabis and other drugs from illegal sources in S. America don’t realise they are funding animal sacrifice. The smugglers are intensely superstitious and sacrifice animals to “St. Death” to ask for the success of their enterprises.
A few years ago, on the US/Mexican border, they kidnapped a young US man, took him into Mexico and sacrificed him to St. Death, the skull-faced patron saint of cannabis smugglers (to whom marijuana is burnt as incense). There was later a big shooting battle between police and smugglers. At the smugglers’ hideout were found the remains of bloody animal sacrifices and also the bones of the youth.
The Scottish Highlanders’ clan feuds were also exploited by the British government and by the Jacobites in the same way as the native American Iroquois tribes.
I read that the Aztecs nearly captured Cortes at one point. I wish they had done so.
Among some Celtic peoples a king would be chosen to rule for a year and then be killed and eaten. (Should be implemented now😀). He would be eaten raw by the priestesses.
The Tigris and Euphrates area was always flooding and the farmers there are well used to this. They of course take their goats and other livestock with them on their boats, from which the Ark legend grew.
” Would you like to examine Matthew Henry’s specific commentary on Elijah and the prophets of Baal, or look into how he compares Baal worship to Molech?”
I believe it. It was reported by the Romans about Carthage, and the Carthaginians were Phoenicians, and Phoenicia was what is now Lebanon.
Bizarre though, don’t you think? Children are a society’s future.
” However, ritual animal sacrifice persisted in some regional Iranian traditions well into the Islamic era before largely fading out.”
Aren’t goats still sacrificed in Islam for Eid?
” However, ritual animal sacrifice persisted in some regional Iranian traditions well into the Islamic era before largely fading out.”
Yes. The conquest of India by the Aryan (Iranian) speaking peoples in about 1200 BCE subjected the vegetarian natives (the Dravidians) to the caste system as “Untouchables.” The Dravidian scriptures are the Upanishads and they are the reason for most of India being vegetarian or vegan. But the scriptures of the Aryans are the Vedas, and they were huge animal sacrificers and meat eaters.
I know animal sacrifice was the main ritual in Hellenic and other religions, and among the Hebrews. The Jewish Temple was daily awash with blood, and this only stopped publicly with the Temple’s destruction in 70 CE. There has been talk of rebuilding the Temple by Israel’s Zionist government today, and this would re-institute animal sacrifices. But it is only talk for now.
Human sacrifice was banned by the Romans because it was still common among the Gauls and the Britons. Mithraism nearly won over Christianity, but, had its sacrifices been human ones, Rome would have intervened to proscribe it.
Stavrakopoulou quotes in God: An Anatomy a scripture where Yahweh bewails the death of Baal and goes down to the underworld to rescue him. He then expresses his relief that the magnificent Baal is alive again.
Where did you read that Paul had syphilis and took hashish and opium? Isn’t he unknown for the most part and just a pseudonym used by the authors of the epistles?
