From: marshall1198@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Christianic Sacrificesdir
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:34:08 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <n091et@ofa123.fidonet.org>, David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> Heard on the news this morning about a collection of recient
> ritual murders by Christians. Two examples that I remember
> clearly:
>  
>   A Mr. Sale asked his aunt, who was 75 years old, if she
>   wanted "Eternal life in our lord, Jesus the christ." She
>   said "Of course," so he promptly dragged her, while she
>   kicked and screamed, into the bathroom and drowned her
>   in the bath tub, which he had filled before hand for the
>   Christanic sacrifice.
>  
>   When later he was asked why he did this, he said that
>   "Jesus our lord god commisioned me to kill the minions
>   of Satan." It was learned that Mr. Sale believed that
>   his aunt was "possesed" by Satan. Later in his jail cell
>   Mr. Sale said she WAS Satan, and that he was Jesus.

Oh, obviously this was a Christian practice...GIVE ME A BREAK!  This stuff was
done by some crazy man.  Obviously, this is not Christian practice!

>  
> In another Christanic sacrifice:
>  
>   A mob of church members burned down a house, where they
>   had heard "Satanic child sacrifices" were performed every
>   Monday. They described the sacrifices in vivid, grand
>   detail, including child molestation and infant canabalism.
>   After the deed was done, they went back to their church and
>   prayed, thanking their Jesus that no one in their company
>   was harmed by the "Satanists."
>  
>   One of these Christians, however, still possessed a sence
>   of guilt and morality. He went to the police a few days
>   later, when he heard that a woman and child had been burned
>   to death in the fire. One other Christian who participated
>   later confessed, and the two named seven others--- these
>   seven emphatically deny participation in the murders.
>  
>   It was later learned that the Christian mob had burned down
>   the wrong house: their target was the neighbor's house, where
>   every Monday evening a family of Seunies (native Columbians)
>   had a barbeeque, where they butchered their dinner beforehand.
>   The barbeeques consisted of goats, pigs, lambs and chickens:
>   no children.
>  
>   The Seunies have since fled for their lives, fearing that the
>   Christians will come back and finish the job. They looked for
>   a new house as far away from a Christian church they could
>   find, saying that Christian churches were "seeped in evil."
>   (Who could argue with them?)

It may be so that churches are "seeped in evil", but not all of them.  I agree
that there are a lot of lax and confused people out there that happen to go to
church, but that does not make them Christians and does not mean that they are
following Christian practices.  Those people were crazed murderers.

>  
> I wonder if these are some of the "Traditional Family Values"
> Kind George "baby butcher" Bush want to force Americans to
> adopt?

Nobody is forcing anything.  Could we give the baby a chance to live?

> 
> --- Maximus 2.00

It seems that these are the worst examples to argue against Christianity with. 
These are not Christian practices listed above.  Do not blame Christians for
something that some murderous people did.


Evan Marshall
marshall1198@iscsvax.uni.edu

Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA