Human Sacrifice (Paganism, Part VII)
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Sometimes I read books by people who state that the Pagans made human sacrifices to their gods and they try to use this as evidence supporting the claim that they were primitive barbarians, savages. But did they really make human sacrifices? Let's find out.
Paganism, Part VII, "Human Sacrifice"
When they produced criminals sometimes they executed them and their deities were their supreme judges so they executed them by sacrificing them to the deities of justice. So in effect they just executed criminals. They didn't sacrifice children or virgins or the sort of innocents. They simply took the most despicable individuals amongst themselves and hung them or chopped their heads off, simple as that. And they did this in the name of a deity of justice and therefore it was defined as a human sacrifice or seen as a human sacrifice. So there's nothing in this as suggested by the Christians, like some sort of demand from these primitive deities that you have to sacrifice human beings to this or that deity, no.[1][2]
Paganism, Part VII, "Human Sacrifice"
When they produced criminals sometimes they executed them and their deities were their supreme judges so they executed them by sacrificing them to the deities of justice. So in effect they just executed criminals. They didn't sacrifice children or virgins or the sort of innocents. They simply took the most despicable individuals amongst themselves and hung them or chopped their heads off, simple as that. And they did this in the name of a deity of justice and therefore it was defined as a human sacrifice or seen as a human sacrifice. So there's nothing in this as suggested by the Christians, like some sort of demand from these primitive deities that you have to sacrifice human beings to this or that deity, no.[1][2]
- The pre-Christian European man, as imagined in the minds of Judeo-Christians:
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