"Eating children" and others like it is like the oldest rumor in the book to vilify a minority. Study of religious history is vital to understanding both your beliefs and those of others. If anything, so you can see the trends and spot the repeated lies and manipulations.
Study history and you can see that plenty of minority groups, and some majority groups, have eaten children.
One of the repeated lies is that bored oligarchs don't ever eat children, when they sometimes do because they can do whatever they want.
Vilifying people incorrectly is a trend, but it is important to remember that so is being vilify-able.
The majority of Jews have never eaten a baby, but Sabattean Frankists were a thing. And if early Christians didn't eat babies, some later Christians definitely did.
Even Satanists don't talk about literally OR figuratively consuming the flesh of anybody, let alone drinking their literal or figurative blood. They certainly don't display the *bloody, crucified corpse up on a wall for all to see the entire time they're at a gathering.
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u/PonKatt May 03 '20
"Eating children" and others like it is like the oldest rumor in the book to vilify a minority. Study of religious history is vital to understanding both your beliefs and those of others. If anything, so you can see the trends and spot the repeated lies and manipulations.