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 From: sr.wilson@ntlworld.com 
  
 "Ryan P."  wrote in message 
 news:cp%te.2275$hV5.1301@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com... 
 > Stephen Wilson wrote: 
 > 
 >> "Murphoid"  wrote in message 
 >> news:1119377463.985074.169610@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... 
 >> 
 >>> 
 >>>The Doctor wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>>No deal!!  The Oxford has been around LONGER! 
 >>> 
 >>>Older isn't better.  Paganism has been around longer that Christianity, 
 >>>Should we  all go start up with the human sacrifice again? 
 >> 
 >> 
 >> I think sacrificing humans is actually more likely to be done by 
 >> Christians than by Pagans. The more primitive people of vey ancient times 
 >> used animal or human sacrifices in their rituals, but later pagans 
 >> recognised that life is too delicate to sacrifice. 
 > 
 >  I think you'd be hard pressesd to find examples of institutional human 
 > sacrifice by Christians over the past 2000 years.  I'm not an expert or 
 > anything, or even particularly religious, but I don't recall God ever 
 > demanding a human sacrifice... in fact, I seem to remember God sending an 
 > angel coming down to STOP somebody from sacrificing their son to pass a 
 > test God had initiated. 
  
 Wanna bet? 16 June 2005 and 
 http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/19328071 reports "Boys from Africa 
 are being murdered as human sacrifices in London churches. They are brought 
 into the capital to be offered up in rituals by fundamentalist Christian 
 sects, according to a shocking report by Scotland Yard." 
  
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