The way w refers to 'sacrifice' sounds like we're in a death cult.

[Philosoraptor]

King". The sun god of the Canaanites (Ammonites?) in old Palestine and sometimes associated with the Sumerian Baal, although Moloch (or Molekh) was entirely malevolent. In the 8th-6th century BCE, firstborn children were sacrificed to him by the Israelites in the Valleye of Hinnom, south-east of Jerusalem (see also Gehenna). These sacrifices to the sun god were made to renew the strength of the sun fire. This ritual was probably borrowed from surrounding nations, and was also popular in ancient Carthage.
Moloch was represented as a huge bronze statue with the head of a bull. The statue was hollow, and inside there burned a fire which colored the Moloch a glowing red. Children were placed on the hands of the statue. Through an ingenious system the hands were raised to the mouth (as if Moloch were eating) and the children fell into the fire where they were consumed by the flames. The people gathered before the Moloch were dancing on the sounds of flutes and tambourines to drown out the screams of the victims.

According to some sources, the Moloch in the Old Testament is not a god, but a specific form of sacrifice.


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bush is about to address the nation and again call for more sacrifice. The word is supposed to have almost a religious quality to it, as in, they sacrificed their lives so that we Americans can be free. All we have to do is sacrifice our young men and women to the great god Moloch and he will be pleased and have mercy on us.

He will ask that we send more troops into hell, into the belly of the beast, so that he and his buddies may become more powerful and infinitely wealthier. He will use the lofty sounding word 'sacrifice', but he is a demon, he is Moloch arisen.

[phaseolus]

1. Of course this doesn't go for his cronies and contributors...

Remember the "cakewalk" days? No talk of sacrifice back then, *and* they gave seminars for rich guys on how to better profit from the war.... for Repub contributors, by invitation only.

[Lerkfish]

2. it IS a death cult.....for the neocons. No sacrifice of the lives of others is

too great for them to masturbate to in their mahogany offices.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. What do you think the Bush's 'Culture of Life'

is all about?

[randr]

4. Any religion that promises a heaven after life is a death cult!

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Well put.

I may borrow that phrase, if you don't mind.

[ariellyn]

5. Sacrifice means to give up something good for something even better

according to Stephen Covey. I don't see what's "better" about giving up anything for this war.