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.
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.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
You could accomplish a lot
of what it does simply by setting up automatic transfers to a savings account (yours or your
child's) on your own — and you wouldn't have to
sacrifice the ability to withdraw your cash easily on a moment's notice.
Some
of the students come from very rich families, but many are from families that make immense
sacrifices to send their
children to study in American universities where they tend to major in STEM or business degrees, he said.
The problem
of sacrificing one's
children is a knotty one.
A narrative by campaign organizer Mandy Goodman read: «A kind, caring hero
sacrificed his life to save the lives
of children.
«The most important and fulfilling thing in my day to day life is taking care
of my five
children, who are ages 3 - 13 but on the business side, it's knowing CSSCS has so quickly made a difference in people's lives that makes the
sacrifices I have made all worthwhile.
Sacrificing the
children to preserve the «good» name
of the church is flat - out evil.
If
children and infants were killed it was quick and better than a life
of live
sacrifice in red hot arms or growing up blood thirsty and wicked.
The Amalekites as you recall offered live
sacrifice of infants and
children into the red hot bronze arms
of their fertility god while they danced and had orgies.
I agree with your post, Mr. Stephens — insofar as I believe that a cobbled - together patchwork
of Bronze Age myths that sanction slavery, genocide, human
sacrifice, and
child murder should not be arbitrarily invoked as the sole determinate for notions
of morality in the modern world.
Would you be willing to
sacrifice the
children of others in order to save your own?
' God only acted that way after hundreds
of years
of the Isrealites engaging in Baal worship that involved the blood
sacrifices and canabalism
of their
children (and lots
of other unmentionable perverted stuff).
The Death and Resurrection
of the Beloved Son: The Transformation
of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity By Jon D. Levenson Yale University Press.
Self - important simpletons commonly hate anyone that isn't bound to the «moral» standards
of verses such as Leviticus 20:13 which commands putting people to death that are not within the primitive social norms
of living in caves and
sacrificing goats and
children and owning slaves.
Secondly, if you are going to base your arguement on it, God only acted that way after hundreds
of years
of the Isrealites engaging in Baal worship that involved the blood
sacrifices and canabalism
of their
children (and lots
of other unmentionable perverted stuff).
Still to no end Job would pray for them, and many times he would
sacrifice unto YHWH for his loved ones to get in good with the Creator YHWH for the forgiveness
of his disobedient
children until the day when the challenge
of Job's faith began.
The New Testament values
of faithfulness, love,
sacrifice and promise - based commitment can be practiced by heterosexual couples without
children — and by same - sex couples as well.
Did they kill the women and boys because
of the known $ exual immorality and associated disease that riddled these tribes that offered their
children as human
sacrifice and $ ex toys?
The
sacrifices we make for spouses and
children can be among the best reflections we can offer
of the perfect
sacrifice of Golgotha.
How is it moral to look to a
child sacrifice as redemption
of the sins
of people not even yet born?
If by God is meant the Father Almighty, maker
of heaven and earth, who redeems his
children by the atonement and
sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ according to the predestined plan
of salvation revealed in the Bible and ascribed to by the Christian churches, then the answer obviously is No — Schweitzer does not believe in God.
But I guess in the case
of the Amalekites it was moral for the Israelite's to
sacrifice other peoples
children...
Too much — as parents seek to reproduce themselves in their
children, feverishly seek
children «
of their own,» and try as much as possible to protect those
children from all experience
of suffering and
sacrifice.
«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.»
I then run into the rather jarring Lev 18:21, «««Do not give any
of your
children to be
sacrificed to Molek, for you must not profane the name
of your God.
It's the other way around — we are saved from hell, forever made a
child of God, so we are «free» to sin without
sacrificing that position.
What makes the New Testament household codes powerful and countercultural is that they actually challenge those hierarchies by instructing all members
of the household — even the masters, who in that culture held unilateral authority over their slaves, wives, and
children — to imitate Jesus Christ in their relationships by modeling his self -
sacrificing love.
A more moving portrayal
of the meaning
of child sacrifice to a good father could hardly have been written than this story furnishes; the profound loyalty involved in
child sacrifice, holding nothing back that religious obligation might require, is recognized; and the story's obvious objective is reached when «Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt - offering in the stead
of his son.»
The archeological evidence in Palestine reveals with pitiful adequacy the common
sacrifice of little
children as offerings to the gods.
(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.
(Leviticus 19:2; cf. 20:26; 21:18) Along with moral commands against such evils as
child sacrifice, adultery, and sexual perversion are detailed injunctions concerning ceremonial observances, reminiscent
of the old taboos.
Of course, there are some true and legitimate reasons why, at certain times, families may discern being called to the sacrifice of delaying childre
Of course, there are some true and legitimate reasons why, at certain times, families may discern being called to the
sacrifice of delaying childre
of delaying
children.
But he is no zealot, eager to practice
child -
sacrifice or insensitive to the horror involved; this we learn from the austere, steady, and dignified way he proceeds, as indicated by the simplicity, compactness, and austerity
of the verbs used to recount his actions: He arose, saddled (his ass), took (two youths with him and Isaac his son), cleaved (wood for the burnt - offering), rose up and went.
He is murdered by his wife in retaliation for the
sacrifice of a daughter twenty years before; she, in turn, is killed by her
children, Orestes and Elektra.
They don't
sacrifice their
children, eat their pets or preach about the importance
of armed robbery.
The example
of your friends and neighbours demonstrates that while
children require
sacrifice, they are also the source
of joy, meaning and peace.
The
child profits from the self -
sacrifice of its mother.
She expresses her resentment over what she sees as her
children's lack
of gratitude for all her hard work and
sacrifice (Grandma 6).
The same God who accepts without comment Jephthah's
sacrifice of his own daughter, who allows
children to be mauled by a bear for taunting one
of his prophets, who threatens Israel with such devastating famine that they will be forced to eat their own infants.
It the region where people with albinism are killed for sake
of richness (belief), it is the region where people
sacrifice even their
children so as to get gold or diamond and its the region where the main trucks from Dar es Salaam to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and DRC pass across, thus high rates
of HIV / AIDS.
1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women,
children as spoils
of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women /
children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal
sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws
of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins
of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against
children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)
In Christianity, and Christianity alone, all these negative elements
of pagan mythology are stripped away, and we are told that God loves us so much, that He does not want us to
sacrifice our own
children, but instead, He will
sacrifice His own Son for us.
Further, quran confirms that God ransomed the
child of Abrham with a momentous
sacrifice for GENERATIONS to come in Later times.
ScottK: So what you are saying is that since the Jews prohibited their people from following the tradition
of the Ammonites (burning their
children as a
sacrifice to their god Molech) that somehow lets people like Bin Laden off the hook for killing, burning and maiming thousands
of innocent people?
Therefore, if people think they can willfully go on sinning and the
sacrifice of Jesus on the cross covers them, they are sadly mistaken, But if we sin (on purpose) out
of weakness and imperfection then as 1 John writes, «My little
children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.
Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor
of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the author
of Creation and the Persistence
of Evil: The Jewish Drama
of Divine Omnipotence (Princeton University Press) and The Death and Resurrection
of the Beloved Son: The Transformation
of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity (Yale University Press).
Russell could scornfully reply: put a «hood» over your head, put a «hood» over the slaughter on the western front, put a «hood» over your protest against the Moloch
of the modern state that demands that
children be
sacrificed.