Mary Christine Erikson wrote:
Surely the key thing is to focus on the offence - which is child abuse -
not construct all sort of lurid scenarios and "what ifs". The ritualised
elements is in a way incidental to the main offence.
In UK, despite a great desire to find abuse amongst the pagan community
- the opposite seems to be true -
child abuse is less common amongst this particular sector - certainly
not more prevalent.
Child abuse is still larely the activity
of the 'ordinary' / 'normal family' (with the proviso that the 'normal'
family is in deep crisis here in UK just now).
If there is a catagory of 'ritual' abuse - it was mainly the accusers
who turned out to be the abusers -so ten years after the SRA scare in
UK it was the christian church that had questions to answer- even so we
have to be careful about tarring all christians with the same brush -
or making arguments that ther e is something inherent in christianity
that leads to abuse.
I would think all religions have something in their early mythology that
could be used as a justification for abuse of some kind.
This is beacue _all ancient mythologies_ record the _move away from_ the
ancient practice of human and child sacrifice, cannibalism etc.
bb/93
Mogg
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> Where there's smoke, there's fire, but the smoke can include
> smoke screens.
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> Mary Christine
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>
> In a message dated 2/24/2008 2:28:18 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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> On Feb 24, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Mary Christine Erikson wrote:
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> > http://ajdrew.blogs.pagannation.com/defrost-please-read/
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> > I notice that action described by survivors is mostly from 1950s to
> > mid 1980s.
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> Action? Survivors? I saw no reference to that in the URL you
> provided.
> Please specify.
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