11 Facts About Child sacrifice

1.

Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result.

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Child sacrifice is thought to be an extreme extension of the idea that the more important the object of sacrifice, the more devout the person giving it up is.

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3.

Human sacrifice was an everyday activity in Tenochtitlan and women and children were not exempt.

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4.

Child sacrifice was preferred when there was a time of crisis and transitional times such as famine and drought.

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5.

Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, stressed that the climax of the story, commanding Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, is the whole point: to put an end to, and G-d's total aversion to the ritual of child sacrifice.

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6.

Some scholars have stated that at least some Israelites and Judahites believed child sacrifice was a legitimate religious practice.

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In other words, this story of human Child sacrifice is not an order or requirement by God, but the punishment for those who vowed to Child sacrifice humans.

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8.

At Carthage, a large cemetery exists that combines the bodies of both very young children and small animals, and those who assert child sacrifice have argued that if the animals were sacrificed, then so too were the children.

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Child sacrifice's ankles had evidently been tied and his legs folded up to make him fit on the table.

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10.

Child sacrifice had been ritually murdered with the long bronze dagger engraved with a boar's head that lay beside him.

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11.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus states the practice of child sacrifice was one of the causes that brought about the fall of the Pelasgians in Italy.

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