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The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice

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The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice
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RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice
April 12, 2012 at 5:33 am
(April 12, 2012 at 2:01 am)michaelsherlock Wrote: What this church father seems to be admitting is that the early church, in like manner to other surrounding religious traditions, killed babies at the beginning of their services. If in fact this be the case,…
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1. Philip Schaff. Ante-Nicene Fathers. Vol. 3. Latin Christianity; Its founder, Tertullian. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. (1885). Pg. 192

Infanticide was a common practice in the archaic, ancient and modern world. Most probably first-borns are still killed in some remote corner of the planet.
The ancient Greeks did, the Israelites did it, so why not the Christians too.

The point is: do you know how this inhuman custom begun?

P.S. Can you furnish some address where the passage you are citing can be found on line?
What is the language of the original?
"Culture is memory"

Yuri Lotman

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The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice

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RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice - by Godschild - April 12, 2012 at 3:29 am
RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice - by Forsaken - April 12, 2012 at 3:51 am
RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice - by dtango - April 12, 2012 at 5:33 am
RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice - by dtango - April 12, 2012 at 9:54 am
RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice - by Phil - April 12, 2012 at 10:03 am
RE: The Early Church and Infant Sacrifice - by Minimalist - April 12, 2012 at 12:40 pm

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