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| Argument: The Story About Christians Drinking the Blood of an Infant that They Have Murdered, is a Barefaced Calumny. But the Gentiles, Both Cruelly Expose Their Children Newly Born, and Before They are Born Destroy Them by a Cruel Abortion. Christians are Neither Allowed to See Nor to Hear of Manslaughter.
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Chapter
XXX.—Argument: The Story About Christians Drinking the
Blood of an Infant that They Have Murdered, is a Barefaced
Calumny. But the Gentiles, Both Cruelly Expose Their Children
Newly Born, and Before They are Born Destroy Them by a Cruel
Abortion. Christians are Neither Allowed to See Nor to Hear of
Manslaughter.
“And now I should wish to meet him who says or
believes that we are initiated by the slaughter and blood of an infant.
Think you that it can be possible for so tender, so little a body to
receive those fatal wounds; for any one to shed, pour forth, and drain
that new blood of a youngling, and of a man scarcely come into
existence? No one can believe this, except one who can dare to do
it. And I see that you at one time expose your begotten children
to wild beasts and to birds; at another, that you crush them when
strangled with a miserable kind of death. There are some women
who, by drinking medical preparations,1817
| 1817 By medicaments and
drinks. |
extinguish the source of the future man in their very bowels, and thus
commit a parricide before they bring forth. And these things
assuredly come down from the teaching of your gods. For Saturn
did not expose his children, but devoured them. With reason were
infants sacrificed to him by parents in some parts of Africa, caresses
and kisses repressing their crying, that a weeping victim might not be
sacrificed. Moreover, among the Tauri of Pontus, and to the
Egyptian Busiris, it was a sacred rite to immolate their guests, and
for the Galli to slaughter to Mercury human, or rather inhuman,
sacrifices. The Roman sacrificers buried living a Greek man and a
Greek woman, a Gallic man and a Gallic woman; and to this day, Jupiter
Latiaris is worshipped by them with murder; and, what is worthy of the
son of Saturn, he is gorged with the blood of an evil and criminal
man. I believe that he himself taught Catiline to conspire under
a compact of blood, and Bellona to steep her sacred rites with a
draught of human gore, and taught men to heal epilepsy with the blood
of a man, that is, with a worse disease. They also are not unlike
to him who devour the wild beasts from the arena, besmeared and stained
with blood, or fattened with the limbs or the entrails of men. To
us it is not lawful either to see or to hear of homicide; and so much
do we shrink from human blood, that we do not use the blood even of
eatable animals in our food.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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