I come to this from a pre-Christian pre bibles perspective; when humans first started caring for their injured and old, and came to burying them with some care, a few flowers. Tens of thousands of years ago.The decentralized past. Please understand that as you insist that only certain religions are included in 'good', you alienate those who would otherwise be on your side.
I have been reading today on how peoples such as those of Oceania - pre-Christian, illiterate, ate their children (australian aborigines, polynesians) and their victims of war (Maoris). One account of this is Moon's "This Horrid Practice", which documents the custom of the Maori to eat those vanquished in battle.
Another is the account of the conquest of New Spain, by Cortes' lieutenant, Bernal. One further would be "War before civilisation", which takes examples of pre-colonial cultures across the globe, providing a picture of reality quite different from that suggested by romantic imaginings.
My own family on my father's side are descended from the pagans who settled my birthplace in the 9th century.
Their custom of senicide is preserved in their literature, reminiscent of the Tarpeian rock of old pagan Rome. The practice of doing away with the old was widespread in the time before letters and the Cross, it being noted in over a hundred and fifty cultures worldwide - and one which persists to this day in India - despite being illegal.
Corpses were filmed being consumed in Africa as recently as 2014. Here is a video of a chap from the Central African Republic explaining why he ate a man's leg. The BBC says despite him being a Christian, it appears he did so due to the persistence of traditional beliefs in sorcery. The one-time ruler of the CAR, Bokassa, famously fed people to crocodiles and reportedly boasted to a horrified French diplomat at his extravagant 1977 coronation that he had just unwittingly eaten human flesh.
These practices survive into our times, and are a relic of the prelapsarian paradise you imagine was a world of harmony before the ruin of civilisation. There is ruin in civilisation, but it is the Cross and the coloniser who brought it which largely stamped out these practices wherever they were encountered.
Defo saw tweets from the other side encouraging MAGA to vote by text also, mysteriously not prosecuted.
Regarding the po-po saying “God bless you” could be offensive to Mohammedans, I am constantly told we both worship the same God (lol).
Yeah criminalise the normal and normalise the criminal.
Unbelievable although I do hope the powers that be will be more favourable towards Douglas now..
This is outrageous. Praying for this man.
I come to this from a pre-Christian pre bibles perspective; when humans first started caring for their injured and old, and came to burying them with some care, a few flowers. Tens of thousands of years ago.The decentralized past. Please understand that as you insist that only certain religions are included in 'good', you alienate those who would otherwise be on your side.
I have been reading today on how peoples such as those of Oceania - pre-Christian, illiterate, ate their children (australian aborigines, polynesians) and their victims of war (Maoris). One account of this is Moon's "This Horrid Practice", which documents the custom of the Maori to eat those vanquished in battle.
Another is the account of the conquest of New Spain, by Cortes' lieutenant, Bernal. One further would be "War before civilisation", which takes examples of pre-colonial cultures across the globe, providing a picture of reality quite different from that suggested by romantic imaginings.
My own family on my father's side are descended from the pagans who settled my birthplace in the 9th century.
Their custom of senicide is preserved in their literature, reminiscent of the Tarpeian rock of old pagan Rome. The practice of doing away with the old was widespread in the time before letters and the Cross, it being noted in over a hundred and fifty cultures worldwide - and one which persists to this day in India - despite being illegal.
Corpses were filmed being consumed in Africa as recently as 2014. Here is a video of a chap from the Central African Republic explaining why he ate a man's leg. The BBC says despite him being a Christian, it appears he did so due to the persistence of traditional beliefs in sorcery. The one-time ruler of the CAR, Bokassa, famously fed people to crocodiles and reportedly boasted to a horrified French diplomat at his extravagant 1977 coronation that he had just unwittingly eaten human flesh.
These practices survive into our times, and are a relic of the prelapsarian paradise you imagine was a world of harmony before the ruin of civilisation. There is ruin in civilisation, but it is the Cross and the coloniser who brought it which largely stamped out these practices wherever they were encountered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGk53Tu1-zU
Gosh, what an intolerant bigot you are, Frank. But but but, muh Druids!
Don’t you start flapping captain pidge