>> ^shinyblurry:

They also fling their poop around and engage in cannibalism.


I hear monkeys also do that.

They also fling their poop around and engage in cannibalism.

"we had no choice! they were cannibals!"

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112492/


"After several children have gone missing, a writer and a cop decide to get to the bottom of the problem once and for all. As they find more and more leads they discover that their children are being brainwashed into zombified cannibal killers by a disturbed teen."

Ha, so the people killing these children were the good guys. Way to go.

Nice selective quoting.

"The classical (Roman) writers affirm that they offered on great occasions human sacrifices; as for success in war or for relief from dangerous diseases. Cæsar has given a detailed account of the manner in which this was done. "They have images of immense size, the limbs of which are framed with twisted twigs and filled with living persons. These being set on fire, those within are encompassed by the flames." Many attempts have been made by Celtic writers to shake the testimony of the Roman historians to this fact, but without success."

We have no reason to doubt the testimony of their contemporaries. And if you want more evidence, how about national geographic:

Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibalism.html

It's actually far worse than I thought. Far from a quaint little holiday where people mourned the dead, it was sick pagan bloodbath.

What's clear is that you're more interested in a convenient truth;; you said it yourself, you skim over the evidence in apathy, and just want to believe what you want. Doesn't change the facts though; Halloween celebrates an evil day where a bunch of savages worshipped demons, sacrificed human beings and apparently ate their flesh. I'm sorry, but there is nothing there for Christians to celebrate. Pat Robertson is 100 percent correct.

>> ^pho3n1x:
Show me where, in your first link, it mentions human sacrifice...
Instead, don't. I'll quote it for you:
That the Druids offered sacrifices to their deity there can be no doubt. But there is some uncertainty as to what they offered, and of the ceremonies connected with their religious services we know almost nothing.
Also, quoting the other article you mentioned regarding bonfires:
It comes from the contraction of bone fire, where the Celts used to burn animal bones to ward off evil spirits.
Try harder.
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Catholic Mass, to my knowledge, is not based on pagan sacrifice at all, but rather using bread and wine as a "bloodless" sacrifice honoring the crucifixion of Christ. Granted, I only skimmed the articles because I'm not really that interested in the whole ordeal, but it seems to me like you don't like to read anything other than the pamphlets your church of choice provides about each secular holiday anyway, so I'm probably just wasting my time.
You can believe what you want to believe, let me believe what I want to believe.
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Religion is like a penis.
It's awesome that you have one.
It's awesome that you're proud of it.
But please stop whipping it out and waving it around in public.
It's not any better or more important than mine.
>> ^shinyblurry:
Druids worshipped baal, engaged in human sacrifice:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_bulfinch_chxlia.htm\

This was not a wholesome little get together, and it did involve blood sacrifice. The root of bonfire is "bonefire" http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_origin_of_the_word_bonfire
No, not all spirits are demons; God is a spirit, and angels are spirits. Yet, many people have this idea of a dichotomy between "good" spirits and evil spirits, but in reality they're almost all evil spirits. Any spirit not sent by God is a demon. Spirits impersonating the dead are demons, spirits which claim to be other gods are demons, the spirits people channel are demons, etc. The astral realm is owned by Satan and populated by demons pretending to be every kind of fantasy someone could imagine, and many people wouldn't. There is no Goddess, there are no ghosts, there aren't any of these psychic manifestations. It all stems from Satan. Satan is a being, not a concept, as real as you and me, and he is the deceiver of this entire world.
I agree, Catholic mass is sacrifice, because it is pagan ritual the church took on as its own. It has nothing to do with God, but it does represent the union of the sun and moon, as per babylonian mystery religions.
By and large, people who practice sorcery, divination, channeling, "psychic" abilities, and the like are all doing Satans will. They all come out in droves to celebrate this evil day, to worship other gods and practice their witchcraft; basically to do all the things which God commanded us not to do. The only involvement Christians should have on this is to pray for those who are deceived.
>> ^pho3n1x:
I think you're misconstruing the use of the word "sacrifice" to summon imagery of blood sacrifice (ie Indiana Jones).
Not all sacrifice is macabre or evil. Catholic Mass is a sacrifice.
I've not read a single source regarding Samhain/Halloween/All Saints Eve, even one from "your side" of the argument, that alludes to human sacrifice.
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Projects/Reln91/Blood/s
acrificemainpage.htm
Besides, "pagan" is a blanket term. The ones you are trying to illustrate are Druids. They would make animal sacrifices, which were then immediately consumed as part of the festival.
Satan does not exist in the religion which you are misunderstanding. Satan is a Christian idea.
And I still assert that spirits are not all demons. Is the Holy Spirit a demon?
Before you try to correct me, I also have a lot of personal experience in these matters, and I know that there are some misguided individuals. By and large though, "pagan" religions (as paganism is not in-and-of-itself a religion) do not share these views and simply see the matter for what it is. Animals and crops are harvested for the coming winter, and tribute is paid to "the death of a god", not to "a god of death".

>> ^dag:

I'm reading some Joe Halderman. In his future everyone in the armed forces is gay. Heterosexuality is seen as a perversion akin to cannibalism. That's one way to lick the population problem.


Sounds like "The Forever War" if you mean Haldeman

That's nature for you. Men get testosterone and all the positives and negatives that come with it.

Women get praying mantises.

Ha.

In reply to this comment by looris:
Yeah, I've hated that creature since I came to know that.

In reply to this comment by bareboards2:
Now, THIS is an uber-feminist....

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/bizarre/new
s-10-amazing-images-sexual-cannibalism?image=1

>> ^dag:

I'm reading some Joe Halderman. In his future everyone in the armed forces is gay. Heterosexuality is seen as a perversion akin to cannibalism. That's one way to lick the population problem.


Am reading a german fantasy series recently where the elite force of the military is only homosexual couples who are exceedingly good at killing things because they watch each others back all the time....... for some reason...

Now, THIS is an uber-feminist....

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/bizarre/news-10-amazing-images-sexual-cannibalism?image=1

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'm reading some Joe Halderman. In his future everyone in the armed forces is gay. Heterosexuality is seen as a perversion akin to cannibalism. That's one way to lick the population problem.

Anyone else notice these pricks popping up all over the place, in Australia? Buying some fruit and veg this morning and a preacher was blasting christian music louder than I play cannibal corpse or deicide. At least with Jehovah's Witnesess, you can say no thanks and close the door.

My parents forced me to go to church until I was 18, luckily it was a really liberal Lutheran church. I remember playing Cannibal Corpse for my peers when we were in 6th grade at some christian camp, that was fun. Although, our camp counselor who was an older punk rocker saw my MRR and got an unhealthy little boy crush on me that was pretty frightening.

I remember scaring a lot of kids, smoking lots of cigarettes and smoking lots of pot and then sitting up on the balcony in the back of the Church so all of us kids could just talk and be stoned while ignoring the sermon. Good times! What I would rather have been doing was waking up late Sunday and playing Quake - but nah, instead we were just getting stoned whilst being bored & tired. Oh! but there were doughnuts at the end....

Easter Islanders depended on trees for both source of energy as well as raw materials for building boats. They were highly dependent on trade with other islands, so boats were vital to the trade. But people needed housing and heat, so they kept cutting trees down, until non was left. When the last tree was consumed, they had no means of building boats and trading with other islands. The islands were not self sustaining, so the people turned to cannibalism until the civilization was wiped away.

http://youtu.be/IESYMFtLIis

Joke? I admit this is a bit crazy, but it's no joke.
I may be misunderstanding your comment but this poor woman is in need of some dire need of some counseling help to deal with the death of her late husband.

After he died of an asthma attack, she carried his remains everywhere she went, at one point she spilled some ashes on her hand and couldn't wipe off her hands so she licked them off in stead. Now she can't stop.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Shock-on-TLC-s-My-Strange-Addiction-Woman-Eats-Dead-Husband-s-Ashes-215825.shtml

In reply to this comment by MycroftHomlz:
Is a joke.

In reply to this comment by Sagemind:
I'm kinda repulsed by this - no doubt it's strangely appealing (in its weirdness) to some but the idea sickens me a bit. Not just the thought of eating the ashen remains of a human but from the view of imagining what her husband would think if he knew she was going to eat him. I also imagine the husbands family being horrified over what she is doing.

I can't say for others but it's generally not the type of video that thrills the viewer, which may be the reason why there are so few votes.

She is psychologically messed up and I expect what she is doing is illegal,(cannibalism) but it doesn't effect me so I don't much care about that part of it.

It has it's place in a clinical file somewhere in a shrinks office but I don't see much in it for entertainment value. But that's just me : (just another reason I don't like reality TV)

In reply to this comment by MycroftHomlz:
How did you not vote for this?

In reply to this comment by Sagemind:
OK, I made it to 0:11 - "First I lick my finger..." Click, I'm done!

I'm kinda repulsed by this - no doubt it's strangely appealing (in its weirdness) to some but the idea sickens me a bit. Not just the thought of eating the ashen remains of a human but from the view of imagining what her husband would think if he knew she was going to eat him. I also imagine the husbands family being horrified over what she is doing.

I can't say for others but it's generally not the type of video that thrills the viewer, which may be the reason why there are so few votes.

She is psychologically messed up and I expect what she is doing is illegal,(cannibalism) but it doesn't effect me so I don't much care about that part of it.

It has it's place in a clinical file somewhere in a shrinks office but I don't see much in it for entertainment value. But that's just me (just another reason I don't like reality TV)

In reply to this comment by MycroftHomlz:
How did you not vote for this?

In reply to this comment by Sagemind:
OK, I made it to 0:11 - "First I lick my finger..." Click, I'm done!