“It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.” - Jesus Christ of Nazareth

By Visayas Outpost - November 17, 2023

Pieces of this puzzle have bothered me for a long time, Readers.

No need to even delve deeply into the rabbit hole, because this one is staring us right in the face. I am referring to the harm, abuse, trafficking, and even satanic sacrifice of children. Still going on today. While I had plenty of doubts about beheaded babies in the recent propaganda, the use of children as conflict leverage in Gaza is still sickening. But it is the deeper theological significance that I want to discuss; which is fitting, as it takes us back to the Levant.

In 1902 an archeologist named Stuart McAllister began excavating a site in Gezer, not far from Jerusalem, which turned out to be an Amorite ‘high place’ dating back to around 1500 BC. It contained an altar to Molech, and digging through the layers revealed the charred remains of infants both in the altar and around the large standing stones. Some had been decapitated, and others sawn in half prior to being sacrificed. The site is still there today, marked by a placard listing it as a ‘religious site’, but making no mention of the sacrificed children. Similar remains have been found at many other Canaanite sites like Jericho, establishing a pattern described numerous times in the Bible.

Canaan was not unique in this grisly regard. Baalbek in ancient Assyria, now Lebanon, was similar. Its people worshipped Ba’al and Astarte among others, and sacrificed children. Egypt, same thing. Looking further afield, the ancient Shang Dynasty in China was particularly brutal in a different fashion, and on a more industrial scale. They employed dismemberment, and age was no limit as they made sacrifices to their ancestors rather than gods. On the opposite side of the planet, the Inca raised some children for the sole purpose of ritual sacrifice. The Aztec and Maya are well known for their sacrifices too, including children. Perhaps even more brutal than the Chinese, they often removed the beating heart.

Human-sacrificial cultures tended to be polytheistic, in which the gods were never satisfied, and whose blessings were required for a good harvest, good fortune in battle, etc. We tend to dismiss ancient ritual practices that today would be considered atrocities, as if they didn’t know any better, or maybe life was just more brutal. It is easy to think of humanity as possibly less mentally developed when we use words like Neolithic. Yet even the pre-Roman Etruscans and Carthaginians followed sacrificial practices. Did they all arrive at similar traditions by coincidence?

In the West, we trace our civilization back to Rome. There is a kind of tacit fist-bump there, a vague certainty that we stand on the shoulders of giants. And if Rome was a wee bit barbaric, there is always ancient Greece before them. We feel enlightened, logical, ‘science driven’ one could say, and often proud of our morality. We have put away silly traditions and superstitions, standing atop the developmental heap. We don’t have caste systems for example, that is for the East. We think we don’t have social engineering or one-child policies, because that would be uncivilized don’t-cha-know.

Looking to the grandfathers of Western culture, then, surely the Romans had a civilized approach to the treatment of children. But according to history, it was commonplace for Romans to kill unwanted infants during the pre-Christian era. Even with their great learning, great institutions, rule of law, and citizen rights, this practice was just considered pragmatic. A perfect word to describe why our culture, which thinks itself so enlightened, can justify killing in the womb.

Weaponized Children

What are we to conclude about the state of humankind when we see barbarism directed against children even today, whether as bargaining chips in Gaza, or as human shields in schools doubling as ammo storage facilities? What about the campaign to force vaccines on them, or the fake gassing of families by Assad? Despite the general untrustworthiness of the news and now the advent of “AI” images, most of us are at least certain of Jewish children being loaded into train cars during the ‘40s and Vietnamese villages being burned to a crisp during the ‘60s. I have met face-to-face in Sierra Leone amputated survivors of the ‘90s civil war, who were children when their forearms were hacked off by machete. Evil is real -- don’t tell me it is not -- and at least some of the modern shock stories are likely to be true.

We now accept living in a world where we have only vague ideas what is real when it comes to ‘news’ and online reports. Crisis actors fill the ranks in many high-profile massacres, and yet there are real people who die. Atrocities can and do happen to children, just as they did in ancient times, even though we don’t know which stories to believe. Deny all of these events as fake propaganda if you must, but understand our numbness to it ensures the continued targeting of the young and vulnerable. Why else choose a school, a playground, if not for its programming effect on us? Whether designed for shock value or for actual deadly mayhem, the thinking behind these events is pure evil, even when they are psy-ops . . .

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