Sentences with phrase «carthaginians sacrificed children»

Sacrificing the children to preserve the «good» name of the church is flat - out evil.

Would you be willing to sacrifice the children of others in order to save your own?

The point is if someone believes in a god, any god, and they truly believe that god told them to sacrifice a child, are they morally justified to do it?

Many tribes did sacrifice children to their gods.

«All our talk about peace and the weapons of the spirit is meaningless unless we try in every way to embrace voluntary poverty and not work in any position, any job that contributes to war... We must give up our place in this world, sacrifice children, family... And we will be considered fools for Christ.»

(Jeremiah 7:31; 19:5; 32:35) In the next generation Ezekiel tried another apologetic: granting both that the command to sacrifice children was in the Law, as it obviously was, and that Yahweh was responsible for its presence there, he asserted none the less that; Yahweh had given «statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live,» for the ultimate purpose of punishing them with such desolation that they might recognize the divine hand in their tragedy.

They don't sacrifice their children, eat their pets or preach about the importance of armed robbery.

If your god did watch the women sacrifice their children, why didn't He stop them?

Wow people still drinking blood from a sacrificed child of «god» (Jesus), mutilating little boys d1cks and little girls cl1ts all in the name of their made up bearded man in the sky.

Abraham was going to sacrifice his child to God because he heard a voice in his head.

Maybe we should let some people sacrifice children because their great great great grandparents were aztecs.

In fact, we might see Eid Al Ahda and Rosh Hashanah as far more advanced than the rest of the world precisely because these holidays call to consciousness this repressed but real tendency to pass on the pain that was done to us onto our children, and to remind us that the great spiritual leader Abraham was able to NOT DO IT, thereby giving us the message that we too need not sacrifice our children either actually by supporting the war machine or symbolically by passing onto them various other forms of hurt, oppression and cruelty.

Human sacrifices — they sacrificed their children to Baal, therefore disregarded the gift of life.

We condemn drug traffickers for sacrificing their children, their integrity and their human dignity just to make money or experience pleasure — without seeing that our whole society operates that way.

The question that Atheist, such as yourself have asked many times... if God commanded you to sacrifice your child, would you?

Other cultures have sacrificed children and eaten people as part of their culture and not part of their religion.

They need to raise them to be members of the Illuminati so they can then properly sacrifice their children to the Mayan gods to stop the world from ending on December 12 2012.

As a parent, I read the passage with even wider eyes — imagine being asked to sacrifice your child, the beloved gift that you have waited for all of your life.

I thought that progressive theologians say that these things are symbolic, moral stories, a bit like Aesop's Fables — that unlike the surrounding peoples of Canaan, the Jews should stop sacrificing children, but nobody actually thinks that it's real.»

In the end, the women sacrifice their children on its altars, trusting in a delusion of protection, the responsibility for which is unclear.

Do you respect the aztecs for sacrificing children to their gods?

SO WHY ARE CATHOLIC PARENTS SO WILLING TO SACRIFICE THEIR CHILDREN, and hand them over to these perverts?!?

Christians have been sacrificing children since their supposed God killed the entire first born of Egypt.

Where parents take their newly born children and place them in the arms of a metal statue that has been heated white hot because they think they will gain some benefit by sacrificing their children in the fire.

The only difference that I can see is that the Carthaginians sacrificed children to their gods, while we just sacrifice them to ourselves.

It looks like the Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children.

Similarly today, we sacrifice our children through abortion and neglect as we strive after success in business and the next big promotion.

I think it is ironic and sad that her baby died in her attempt at «Freebirthing» Maybe this tragic event will cause some to reconsider and think a little more about the consequences to their selfish actions and reevaluate if they are willing to sacrifice their childrens lives for their «Experience»

If you leave you're a deadbeat and sacrifice your child completely (a pain I could never imagine).

While there were then, and are now, lots of very protective parents, at the other end of the spectrum, there are still some parents who are, sad to say, willing to sacrifice their child's safety and — in the case of concussions, their long term health — at the altar of a winning performance, a touchdown scored, a scholarship won, a pro contract inked, not just fathers, but mothers, too (for proof, one only has to watch the recent reality television show, «Friday Night Tykes.»).

You no longer have to sacrifice your child's storage needs with your personal style preference when you buy one of the best unisex diaper bags.

First, parents need to consider their child's full life cycle and be reminded not to sacrifice their child's long term health and well - being for short term athletic success.

Sure, some may disapprove, some may be offended, some may take issue with breastfeeding in public, but it isn't your job to protect them from what offends them and it certainly isn't your job to sacrifice your child's needs for someone else's comfort.

If they sacrifice a child to their beliefs, it just proves how committed and strong they are!

More please, starting with the ultra-orthodox rabbis who have been sacrificing children for the sake of appearances.

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«We read those stories in history, when mothers have sacrificed their children instead of allowing them to become enslaved,» she said of the movie's themes of bondage and sovereignty.

While that urge turned The Unexpected Journey into an over-stuffed turkey, though, The Desolation of Smaug saw Jackson's idea crystallise into a thrillingly big romp, sacrificing its child - friendly origins for an even, if dark, tone.

Yet the idea of sacrificing children for the sake of ratings or control might not be as far - fetched as we would like to believe.

At a news conference at its Washington headquarters, the union accused the for - profit company of sacrificing children's educations for profit and announced that it had sent letters to the U.S. Education Department urging an investigation of the company's compliance with federal regulations governing compensatory - and special - education programs.

They sacrificed children and women, who shed the most water in tears during times of draught.

She will say that the country has for too long «tolerated a system that contains an arbitrary rule preventing selective schools from being established», which she claims has sacrificed children's potential «because of dogma and ideology».

Could you sacrifice your children to save humanity?

I sometimes wonder if we are sacrificing our children's future for a new iPad, or something similarly unnecessary.

One must wonder if feral cat advocates are willing to sacrifice children for the cat?

Clumsy tourists — including one who left a camera - sized hole in the skull of a sacrificed child — led to a ban on cameras at the site.

Deep inside, the priests would conduct their most sacred ceremonies, including sacrificing children.

Its true you receive ADAM at a much slower rate (albeit a steadier one) than you would if you harvested the children, but I found the notion of sacrificing these children for the sake of a tonic or plasmid absolutely sickening.

«Once again, Congress is sacrificing our children's future to protect polluters» short - term profits.»