Sentences with phrase «human sacrifice»

To consider is the prior practice of human sacrifice.

It's believed that most of the story is taken from these early agricultural societies that practiced human sacrifice in order to gain salvation from the gods.

Some traditions — such as human sacrifice — don't last.

And while we have no idea whether there are «gods» and whether they are pleased by human sacrifice, we do know that childbirth is not inherently safe.

What was the justification for this mass slaughter of women and little boys: It had nothing to do with human sacrifice.

Two of the man's friends are killed there because the cult requires human sacrifices.

Visitors of this cave will have the opportunity to travel back into the Mayan past and witness a living museum where human sacrifices and artifacts can be viewed in their original context.

Since it is already the law of this country anyway and allows you to worship freely as long as you don't break our laws about human sacrifice?

Why do you see human sacrifice as something that deserves praise?

So in our example if human sacrifice is wrong only according to conventional justice, it is not wrong for any culture which believes it is not wrong.

Then you have the ultimate human sacrifice to save the human race.

Nor do I intend for or advocate that human sacrifice occur.

These serve a purpose within the story since the culture Lara's exploring embraces human sacrifice.

For instance, freedom of religion does not create an exception to murder statutes, just in case the act is a religious human sacrifice.

By the end of the trip, I had even come to have a better understanding of the Mayan practice of human sacrifice.

In other words... why do you worship a god that requires human sacrifice?

Swim into the cave with full gear and then explore where human sacrifices were conducted in past ages.

your god asked for human sacrifice in order to save his flawed creatures he designed and then promised to burn forever 99 % of all humans that ever lived.

It as if an anthropologist writing on human sacrifice ascribed to the belief that the gods could be propitiated by throwing virgin girls into volcanoes, and having accepted that assumption, proceeded to describe the meaning and meaning - making of the ceremonies surrounding the sacrifices.

In this way he's no different than the Aztec gods demanding human sacrifice.

Other popular attractions include sacred caves like Actun Tunichil Muknal, once used by the Maya to perform human sacrifices in an attempt to please their capricious gods.

You wrote: is it morally justifiable to kill ALL the Canaanite toddlers and infants to spare some Canaanite toddlers and infants from human sacrifice??

Religion is often touted as a force for moral good in the world — but it has a sinister side, too, embodied by gruesome rituals like human sacrifice.

[1] however some religions were persecuted for political reasons rather than dogmatic zeal, [2] and other rites banned which involved human sacrifice.

There are too many human sacrifices on campus for good ol' Miskatonic U to be considered.

pe, polygamy, accepting human sacrifice.

I applaud what he is doing and hope that he brings others to God throught the torture and bloody human sacrifice of his son (himself, actually) where he died (well, for a few hours anyway) for us all (at least so the story goes) so that we may live with him in heaven (a great place for which no evidence or photographs exist) until the end of time.

People worshiped the sun and made human sacrifices before they invented god and the bible.

The current programme of commemorative events occurring across key WW1 battlefield sites in West Flanders is enabling students to understand experiences in the trenches and the sheer scale of human sacrifice at profound levels.

There is common belief that these sinkholes were being used to offer human sacrifice.

When I first heard about Kali, Spelunky's resident goddess who loves human sacrifices, I wasn't sure what to think.

Other artifacts include the obsidian blades that are believed to have been used in the solemn but gruesome human sacrifices conducted by Maya priests.

We have no evidence that the people of Noah's day were committing human sacrifices, yet your God drowned toddlers and infants for the sins of their parents.

As the launch date approaches, their astronaut — 17 - year - old Matha Mwambwa — must decide if getting into their precarious rocket vindicates her traumatic past or just makes her a glorified human sacrifice.

The Aztecs of the 1500s practiced human sacrifice in an attempt to control the weather and to keep the Sun moving across the sky.

Supernatural events are depicted, such as a ritual with the god of death that involves bloodletting (briefly shown), an attempted human sacrifice, corpses being raised from the dead, and characters having the life sucked from their bodies.

The Penn Museum has a large collection of artifacts from Ur, because in 1922, British archaeologist Leonard Woolley led a famous series of excavations there, a joint operation between the British Museum and Penn, bringing back precious stones and pottery, and uncovering an ancient human sacrifice.