@fmf saidIntention is generally what determines the nature of the crime, right.
These are actual "child sacrifices" too. The same ultimate objective - with the same outcome: a dead child - albeit in different circumstances, can be referred to with the same term. No problem.
A very tired dad driving home who gets into a car accident and kills his child is a reckless driver and perhaps if the case is extreme enough it merits vehicular manslaughter or some other crime.
A dad who shoots his kid in the face with a shotgun is a completely different thing.
But the same ultimate outcome has occurred.
Yet, they are entirely different.
It's apparently about not ingesting blood...
I don't agree with it at all, but... It isn't them saying that God wants a child to be sacrificed to him.
This is not a good practice as it is.
Why are you so intent on having it be called "child sacrifice?"
What's this obsession with calling things by exaggerated names..?
@philokalia saidIn this case - and in the more familiar type of "sacrifice" - the intention is pleasing or avoiding displeasing one's god figure.
Intention is generally what determines the nature of the crime, right.
@philokalia saidThey are different, of course. No one is denying that. But "child sacrifice" all the same.
Yet, they are entirely different.
@philokalia saidIt's them sacrificing a child [which could probably have lived] and then saying they did it because God didn't want them to use the available medical treatment that might have saved it.
It isn't them saying that God wants a child to be sacrificed to him.
@philokalia saidIt's my firm opinion - not an "obsession" - but I see what you did there. And it is not "exaggerated" - I think it's being real and confronting it for what it is.
What's this obsession with calling things by exaggerated names..?
@fmf saidAn abortion kills almost every time, and now if a child gets born they can still kill it. This sound like a sacrifice to you?
I don't think blood transfusions are "bad" and I don't think abortions are "good". But abortions are legal in the U.S., as are blood transfusions.
On the other hand - as far as I know - the authorities are legally entitled and perhaps legally required to step in and protect children from the risk of death at the hands of their parents if treatment is being withheld for religi ...[text shortened]... is or her informed consent can, of course, decide not to have a blood transfusion and therefore die.