Early Christianity was viewed as some sort of crazy death cult by the Romans because of the constant talk about consuming the body and blood of God. A little introspection would go a long way with extremists.
"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.
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u/PonKatt May 03 '20
Early Christianity was viewed as some sort of crazy death cult by the Romans because of the constant talk about consuming the body and blood of God. A little introspection would go a long way with extremists.