By: Richard Smith
To: Alec Grynspan
Re: Molech Myth

  };> Alec Grynspan wrote in a message to Richard Smith <:(

 RS> And don't forget that the Jews of the OT also sacrificed
 RS> children . . . burnt offerings, in fact.
 AG> Nope. Abraham came close - once.
 AG> After that - no.

 I disagree.  Don't forget, for example, the episode of the
 golden calf . . . allegedly, there was human sacrifice going
 on there, according to several Fundies I've talked to about
 this.  But that isn't all . . .

 Consider the following intimations of sacrifices in the OT:

 Judges 11:30-32, 34, 39:  YHVH delivers Jepthah's enemies
                           into his hands in exchange for the
                           sacrifice of his daughter.

 Leviticus 27:28-9:  Human beings `devoted' or made sacred to
                     YHVH must be put to death.

 2Samuel 21:3-9:  YHVH accepts seven sacrifices to stop
                  famine.

 Deuteronomy 2:33-4: Moses: slaughter women & children
                     captives of war.

 Exodus 22:28-9:  YHVH: All first borns should be sacrificed
                  to YHVH.

 Ezekiel 20:26:  YHVH allows Jews to sacrifice children to
                 horrify them.

 Numbers 31:31-40:  32 virgins set aside to be sacrificed to
                    YHVH.

 Granted, not all of these were children, but enough were so
 that the point gets made.  Ezekiel is perhaps the most
 telling.  And I've only include those that are obvious
 sacrifices, leaving to doubt the 200 foreskins for a king's
 daughter, or Moses hanging the severed heads up for the
 glory of YHVH.  One should also point out that Jesus himself
 is, if nothing else, a sacrifice to YHVH.

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