Yes. Tyrannical governments seem to, once again, want to dictate religious faith practices or customs. Antiochus IV Ephiphanes tried the same thing in 175 BCE:
60 “According to (his) decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised, 61 and their families and those who circumcised them; and they hung the infants from their mothers’ necks.” (1 Maccabees).
Truly, “there is nothing new under the sun,” Here We Go Again!
As Augustine, Camus and Arendt all noted in various ways or degrees, human beings seem to often just shrug off, or avoid seeing, evil as anything exceptional or worth doing anything about...(and so we keep having to relive it....over and over again, even when it takes exactly the same form as previously.)
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