Last week on ‘carljohnsonsite’ a couple of Christian propagandists assert the teaching of child sacrifice in Colorado schools.

Christians have asserted some incredibly crackpot things in the media (think: Donald Trump was sent by Jesus!) and, apparently, continue to do so including their new, wildly insane claim of a defense of child sacrifice being taught in Colorado schools. Add this to their accusations of persecution around the world which are also completely laughable considering that, throughout history, no organization or religion persecuted more people – entire nations and societies at a time – than Christians.  In fact, they literally perfected the art of persecution since there was so little of it before Christianity became an “accepted” then the “official” religion within the Roman Empire.  And they did so in spectacular ways; burning, hanging, the “rack”, ripping off fingernails and body parts, extravagant torture chambers, and much more. They really put their best and most creative foot forward when it came to torture; all to force people to believe what they believe.  You see, it’s not enough for them to hold their mindless, vacuous, beliefs regardless of how ridiculous they are, you must believe it also whether you want to or not. This is the Christian way. So much for “free will” I guess. 

Now they’re going off on child sacrifice in the ancient world and asserting that our children are being taught that child sacrifice shouldn’t be necessarily held as “wrong” (the Inca civilization was the example sited).  They claim the unnamed teacher “also reprimanded ‘white education’ for wrongly teaching generations of Americans that the practice was bad. I’m not making this up.”  First, let’s say that there is a really good chance that they have, in fact, made this up since the weaving of absolute nonsense is one of their specialties.  Let’s also note that they just love an issue that calls out white America so they can demonstrate all the “woe is me” trials and tribulations (pun intended) of the poor, abused, white man. But perhaps their most zany claim is that the remedy for child sacrifice in the ancient world was, of course, Christianity because, after all, who else protects the innocent children of the world more than Jesus’ pious and god-fearing faithful?  It is this claim specifically that got me off the couch to refute this hypocritical, self-righteous nonsense.  But I’ll get to that in a bit.

Let’s remember that, first, they believe that there’s an invisible man in the sky that knows everything, everything you think – or have ever thought – everything you’ve done or will ever do; all monitored by an invisible, supernatural entity. They believe that virgins can have babies while remaining virgins, that people (men, almost exclusively) can perform miracles including walking on water, turning water into wine, raising the dead and, best of all, dying and returning to life – physically – all because some people (again, men exclusively) wrote it in an ancient scroll. Imagine, an ancient society thinking such things!  Remember that all the other religions with the equally ridiculous claims were all deemed false by Christians, except this one!

But my favorite point of the entire episode is their pearl-clutching objection to the idea of child sacrifice in the ancient world.  This seems to step right over the fact that the Israelites themselves also practiced child sacrifice in their very early development as a “people”. (See “Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel” by Heath D. Dewrell) This was not unusual or considered primitive for hundreds and hundreds of years.  Beyond this, their assertion also steps over the steaming pile of excrement that their very own religion relies completely on human sacrifice.  There would be no Christianity (or, at least, no theological basis for it) if it weren’t for their claim that a man named Yeshua – a devout Jew, who lived his entire life as a Jew, born raised and supposedly died as a Jew – returned to life after a most grisly execution by scourging and then crucifixion by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate.  Salvation within the Christian mythology is literally based-upon and completely dependent upon his role as the person of honor in a vicarious human sacrificial ceremony!  This is direct contrast to Hebrew Scripture which states unequivocally that no person may pay for the sins of others, it is simply not acceptable to the deity; the sinner must pay for their own sins.  However, they would have you believe that in this one case, it became not only permissible but essential; that this completely innocent person (literally born without sin) die for the sins of others.  In other words, vicarious salvation by the human sacrifice of another, innocent person.

As far as their assertion that it was Christianity that saved the children from further sacrificial death, I believe it is essential to first understand that the practice of child sacrifice within Israel and the Near East ended millennia before Christianity was even a moronic idea in the head of Saul/Paul and the early church fathers.  It simply wasn’t even a issue discussed in almost any area of the new mythology.  But I think it’s worth noting that the fanatical support of the GOP by the delirious religious class really places their assertion about protecting children exactly where it belongs: in the circular file.  They support a party that simply will not lift a finger to protect our children in their schools, where they are killed by gunmen almost every, single day.  If this is protecting children, then they are as delirious in this intention as their mind-numbing mythology.  Even though I think of this as our most egregious violation of our duties and responsibilities as parents, adults, guardians, whatever, they’re perfectly ok with their representative’s apathy and inaction.

Additionally, I think their silent acquiescence towards the deliberate and systematic genocide by the Israel government and military further highlights the dishonesty and fallaciousness of Christian claims on this topic.  They haven’t – and won’t – say a peep about the deaths of literally thousands and thousands of innocent civilians, men, women and children.  Doesn’t sound to me as though their deity gives a hoot about anything other than money and power.  But then, that is the history of Christianity in practice.

Lastly, their newest and most laughable “messiah” Donald Trump, the THIRTY-FOUR TIME CONVICTED FELON, ADJUDICATED SEXUAL PREDATOR, and adamant PROTECTOR OF THE MOST PROLIFIC PEDOPHILE in AMERICAN HISTORY, whom, it should be noted, they overwhelmingly voted for doesn’t do much to support their case either.  Their assertion of Christianity as the protector of children, as on many of their wildly fictitious and baseless claims, is simply not substantiated by the facts.

I’ll end on my amusement that they never seem to allow comments to their most absurd articles; the ‘debate’ (at least in their own minds) of the Shroud of Turin, the “Rapture”, the return of Yeshua (any day now, after all it’s only been TWO THOUSAND years, so far), and much more cannot be refuted or commented upon.

Gee, I wonder why?