43 posted on 01/25/2008 1:59:03 PM MST by wildbill
It has much to do with Paganism. What you are describing has nothing to do with Yah'shua (Jesus)
b'SHEM Yah'shua
I absolutely agree with you although I’m not sure its strictly paganism. A pagan was how Christians defined those who still worshipped the gods of ancient Rome and Greece and variations of the practice are found all over the world.
However, a Melanesian warrior from Borneo today would instantly recognize the belief in (ritual) cannibalism as a way of absorbing the power or spirit of the Other. Cannibalism has never been explained by its primitive native practitioners as a palliative for hunger or protein, but rather as a spiritual joining.