16 Aug 12
Originally posted by AThousandYoungWell the Romans were definitely pagans and they lined the 'Appian way' with Crucified enemies if they got pissed off.
Roman style sacrifice usually involved burying people alive. There was also this sacrifice:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Marius_Gratidianus#Sacrificial_death
Gratidianus "had his life drained out of him piece by piece, in effect: his legs and arms were first broken, and his eyes gouged out."
They also threw old men over cliffs ...[text shortened]... wouldn't be surprised if the Crucifiction wasn't originally a pagan human sacrifice method.
I just cannot believe christianity has not run a propaganda campaign against paganism for last 2000 years.
16 Aug 12
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-Removed-Why were you surprised? They are hardly a Christian coiuntry. They had to have some sort of theme. Actually it seemed more anti-Christian than occultish to me, not that they are far apart. All that was missing was Madonna in a thong with a cross burning behind her. After all, she thinks she is really English ya know.
I guess they showed Jesus. Even king Herod would have been proud. 😛
16 Aug 12
Originally posted by whodeyCare to cite an anti christian aspect of ceremony?
Why were you surprised? They are hardly a Christian coiuntry. They had to have some sort of theme. Actually it seemed more anti-Christian than occultish to me, not that they are far apart. All that was missing was Madonna in a thong with a cross burning behind her. After all, she thinks she is really English ya know.
I guess they showed Jesus. Even king Herod would have been proud. 😛
16 Aug 12
Originally posted by AThousandYoung"You think British people are better than the rest?"
LOL 😀
Everybody else did human sacrifice. You think British people are better than the rest?
Yes of course.😕
Also given that christianity is based on an act of human sacrifice why does it get associated with paganism.
16 Aug 12
-Removed-I think you would find plenty of occult and mythological symbolism if you stepped into any Church in the UK. In fact, I think that any symbolism whatsoever that you can find anywhere can be tied in some way to either the occult or mythology. 'The occult' after all just refers to 'the mythology that I don't believe and am scared of'.
16 Aug 12
Originally posted by AThousandYoungAs marvellous an idea as I find it, I don't think you can make any sort of argument at all for the blood eagle as an English practice. If it was ever used at all (and it cheers me to think that it was), it would have been a Norse tradition. The English, as always short of imagination, either hanged or chopped off heads.
LOL @ creepy old aunt 😀
Wicker men are Celtic, not English. Traditional English ritual execution involves hanging people or cutting them into blood eagles.
"They caused the bloody eagle to be carved on the back of Ælla, and they cut away all of the ribs from the spine, and then they ripped out his lungs."
Uncertain origin, said to be ...[text shortened]... bone, and draw the lungs there out, and gave him to Odin for the victory he had won"
16 Aug 12
Originally posted by avalanchethecatCelts like to behead people too. They'd preserve the head in salt and show it off to visitors.
As marvellous an idea as I find it, I don't think you can make any sort of argument at all for the blood eagle as an English practice. If it was ever used at all (and it cheers me to think that it was), it would have been a Norse tradition. The English, as always short of imagination, either hanged or chopped off heads.