Posted on 07/06/2007 3:24:05 AM PDT by markomalley
KOLKATA: India has enlisted the follower of a global pagan witchcraft movement to help curb the country'' high female infanticide rate and end the neglect of the girl child, government said on Monday.
Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, a Wiccan and a social activist, has been nominated by the Centre's National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) to head a panel entrusted with the responsibility to improve the status of young girls, they said.
About 10 million girls have been killed by their parents over the past 20 years, said government officials as female infanticide and foeticide. “This is a triumph for Wicca as the establishment was against Wiccans for years,” said Chakraverti.
Wicca is primarily a Western movement of nature worship based on pre-Christian traditions and is recognised as an official religion in the United States. Like many pagan religions, Wicca practises magic.
“Ipsita is the right person for the task as she has travelled widely, does a lot of social work and feels a pain for the downtrodden," said MSA Siddiqui, NCMEI chief and retired judge.
Domestic violence and sexual abuse involving young girls is reported frequently in the country and a 2006 government survey found that 45 per cent of girls were married before the legal marriageable age of 18. — Reuters
Yes, of course, a pagan religion, some of whose supplicants practice child sacrifice, is the perfect choice to save the girl children.
The Bible said that God would send a “strong delusion” in the end times.
This must be a part of that.
pro-life ping!
Then maybe you need to read this, which was written by a modern Wiccan, decrying the rape of children.
http://ajdrew.blogs.pagannation.com/defrost-please-read/
While the article only mentions sexual abuse and rape of children, scholars do remain divided on whether the traditions of Samhain, as practiced by ancient pagans, included child sacrifice.
It is difficult to locate a pagan religion anywhere on the Earth that did not practice child sacrifice.
While there are no Wiccans flying airplanes into buildings and openly threatening to destroy Western Civilization, I would never trust any of them with any of my children.
And besides that, Harry Potter is the DEVIL!
As far as the average person is concerned, modern wiccan is ancient paganism. And ancient pagans did sacrifice children to idols. See Molech in the Bible.
But if what you say is true that wiccan is nothing more than a very loosely defined set of beliefs of various small independent groups with no central governing authority, or agreed upon set of beliefs, then your opinion on what wiccans believe and what they don’t believe, has no validity. Anyone can say anything about wiccans because there is no one standard. Therefore their beliefs can’t be misrepresented because there is on one definition. It is you who have no creditability on this site.
Saying a group has standards when they don’t have standards is silly.
Does the fact that about half of DUmmie Land's denizens are "wiccans" cause you to ponder?
“It is difficult to locate a pagan religion anywhere on the Earth that did not practice child sacrifice.”
Human sacrifice has been part of almost all ancient religions, including non-pagan ones. Christianity is centered around sacrifice and shedding of the Savior’s blood. The Cross itself symbolises (human) sacrifice. God’s own son, sent as human, to be sacrificed for man’s sins.
Hebrews/Israelites take pride in the attempted sacrifice of Issac by his Father Abraham... the story gets twisted in Koran with Ishmael being the subject, but Islam takes pride in that too and names Ishmael as the father of the Muslim Nation.
So, human sacrifice isn’t just among pagan/non-Abrahamic religions. In fact, pacifist religions like Jainism and Buddhism are totally against any violence and that includes prohibiting any kind of physical sacrifice.
Abraham did NOT sacrifice Isaac.
He just showed that he was willing to do so.
It also showed that Isaac was willing to be the sacrifice, since he was certainly old enough and strong enough at the time to defend himself from his aged father.
Furthermore, Abraham believed in the resurrection, that God would resurrect Isaac, since Isaac was the “child of promise”. God had promised that Isaac would have innumerable descendents.
This would not be possible if Isaac were permanently dead.
However, rather than allow the human sacrifice and resurrection to proceed at that time, God interrupted Abraham before he could complete the sacrifice. It was a demonstration to us, a metaphor, that God’s only begotten Son would give Himself as the only sacrifice sufficient and necessary to absolve mankind from Sin.
Jesus made it clear that nobody would take His life from Him, but that He would give it up willingly.
Because of Abraham and Isaac’s obedience, God promised that the Messiah would be a descendent of Abraham and Isaac.
The shedding of blood as atonement for sin began in the Garden of Eden, when God fashioned coats out of an animal’s skin to cover the nakedness of Adam and Eve.
Until Christ came and GAVE HIMSELF as a WILLING SACRIFICE, animal sacrifices were used to typify, or as a metaphor for, the coming sacrifice of God Himself, manifest in the flesh.
Everywhere in the Bible, Human sacrifice is explicitly forbidden, proscribed and CONDEMNED!
The one and only exception is Christ allowing Himself to be a WILLING sacrifice, the one and only human sacrifice, for the sins of all of Mankind for all Time.
In fact, this was more than a human sacrifice, it was a sacrifice of God Himself, offered by God Himself manifest in the flesh, unto God Himself.
Jesus Christ not only had the power to offer Himself as a sacrifice, He had the power to resurrect Himself to assert His conquest over Sin, Death, and Hell itself.
He is the ONLY sacrifice capable of this.
The first time Jesus came to this earth, it was to pay a debt. The debt of sin.
The next time He comes, it will be to collect.
The mortgage to the deed of earth, held by Satan since the Fall of Man in Eden, has been paid in full.
The bad tenent has been given his eviction notice.
And, just like any bad tenent I’ve ever known, Satan is of a mind to trash the place before the eviction takes place.
You are there defending human sacrifice by interpreting it as something noble and divine. How ironic.
> You are there defending human sacrifice by interpreting
> it as something noble and divine. How ironic
Please try to read for comprehension.
Perhaps that’s hard to do through your biases.
Perhaps it’s much more fun to pretend you don’t understand and mischaracterize the statements of others while hiding behind your feigned ignorance.
I will repeat it for you.
Everywhere in the Bible, Human sacrifice is explicitly forbidden, proscribed and CONDEMNED!
The one and only exception is Christ allowing Himself to be a WILLING sacrifice, the one and only human sacrifice, for the sins of all of Mankind for all Time.
In fact, this was more than a human sacrifice, it was a sacrifice of God Himself, offered by God Himself manifest in the flesh, unto God Himself.
Jesus Christ not only had the power to offer Himself as a sacrifice, He had the power to resurrect Himself to assert His conquest over Sin, Death, and Hell itself.
He is the ONLY sacrifice capable of this.
And here’s something I selected for you from the Apostle Paul. See if you can figure it out. Maybe it will be all gobbledygook to you, but maybe it won’t.
1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians 1:26-29
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
That no flesh should glory in his presence.
Oh, I know what you are saying. Don’t get me wrong, I can read. But it is you who is refusing to acknowledge the act of human sacrifice in the Bible(Christianity).
If not so, why is the Cross the central icon of Christianity? Isn’t that to show the SACRIFICE? The act itself?
You said:
“In fact, this was more than a human sacrifice, it was a sacrifice of God Himself, offered by God Himself manifest in the flesh, unto God Himself.”
It is “more” than a human sacrifice. I agree. But it is still physical, bloody and cruel, HUMAN SACRIFICE that is the central theme of Christianity.
Besides, we if dissect pagan human sacrifices and try to interpret/explain them like you are doing with crucifiction, they probably were thinking the sacrificed human was pure, too, and his/her sacrifice would server God(s) or their purpose.
I’m not talking about the intention or deeper meaning, but the act itself.
> who is refusing to acknowledge the act of human sacrifice > in the Bible(Christianity).
> HUMAN SACRIFICE that is the central theme of Christianity.
No it is not.
Ritual human sacrifice is NOT a Christian practice.
However, the act of sacrificing ONESELF for the benefit of others, is something played out every single day, by Christians and non-Christians alike. Firemen, police, soldiers, citizen-heroes, ALL of these offer themselves as a SACRIFICE for the benefit of all.
Jesus said that there is no greater love than to lay down your life so that others may live.
However, it is NOTHING LIKE the ritual human sacrifice practiced by pagan cults.
To compare the selfless sacrifice of those who offer themselves for the good of all to the ritual human sacrifice practiced by ancient pagans to appease some demonic superstition is just over the top.
Don’t play stupid, the context is child abuse.
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