Mars, the God of war. And practically almost all the ones who required human
sacrifices, by the Maya Aztec and Incas there were quite thirsty gods.
Jupiter himself, the mightiest, did whatever he wanted when his personal
interests were involved.
From: "Deborah Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
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> I do not believe all people are capable of mourning and I do not believe
all
> people are capable of compassion or love.
>
> For people that do mourn and have a sense of compassion, I don't think it
> matters what names are given to the death in order to classify or justify
> any killing, other than by accident, as being less than murder.
>
> To me, war is murder, killing is murder, suicide is murder, abortion is
> murder, and euthanasia is murder. Try as I might, I can not justify
killing
> by changing it's name or giving it a social/redeeming quality through
> religious belief, patriotism, liberation, or civil duty.
>
> Question: Before Christianity, before Judaism - what gods determined the
> slaughter of man?
>
> Deborah
>
>
> >At 4:55 PM -0600 4/19/03, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> >But I think it does matter to the victims of such violent actions
> >what the actions are called. The naming of the act is very important
> >to those who have suffered it, and the insistence upon justice is a
> >claim that often depends upon that name.
>
> Well, yes; that is rather what I was trying to say, in my brutal
> simplifications. Justice in human affairs is alas an extremely
> relative concept. And absolute justice is equally problematic...
> But I was attempting to untangle some of the ideologies which
> sanction some deaths and not others, in ways that seem to me to be
> illogical.
>
> If the victims are dead, I rather doubt that it matters to them what
> you call the action that killed them. But it matters very much to
> those who mourn them.
>
> Best
>
> A
> --
>
>
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