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It's a little late but the US should follow Carthage.

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Carthage was utterly defeated by Rome in 146 BC. It practiced infant sacrifice and there is little doubt it considered itself to be a modern society much like the United States regards itself today. It had various reasons for state infanticide some of which mirror the motives of politicians, academics and citizens in today’s society.

Personal convenience, wealth preservation, eradication of the deformed and the good of the community as a whole were reasons that parallel Roe VS. Wade in contemporary US culture and Ralph Northam’s comfortably humane starvation of full term infants reflects Carthage in ways that make some of us cringe.

As is the case today the babies in Carthage had little choice in the matter because the barbaric practice was carried out to make life better for the adults. Human sacrifice is so widespread in western nations, particularly the US under the false flag of choice, that it is not regarded as barbaric but advertised as a benefit to women and society at large. Again, it is sold as a benefit the community as a whole.

In modern America abortion or infant sacrifice, is used as a regulating agent to control the breeding of disfavored races of humans and they are vastly overrepresented in the carnage. There is scant evidence that Carthage used their infanticide to cull the human herd of undesirables as the US is doing today.

Following their defeat Carthage abandoned the practice of human sacrifice and there was probably a backlash among the people who had been proselytized to believe it was necessary for the prosperity of the people.

Oddly, in 1973 the practice gained favor again in the US under the banner of Roe VS. Wade and the spark of divinity of millions of souls are extinguished in the drains of health clinics across the nation. A huge modern cottage industry of extermination has propagated and has brought great wealth to the operators of a vast modern death industry.

A contemporary effort to bring the US back from the atavistic depths of an ancient killing field is underway in Alabama as that state’s governor has signed legislation into law banning state infanticide. The moneyed perpetrators will dig in for a fight as they see power and influence slipping away.

It’s time for the United States to follow Carthage by rejecting the barbarism of state infanticide. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; acquiescing makes us all culpable.
 
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Re: It's a little late but the US shluld follow Carthage.

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Carthage was utterly defeated by Rome in 146 BC. It practiced infant sacrifice and there is little doubt it considered itself to be a modern society much like the United States regards itself today. It had various reasons for state infanticide some of which mirror the motives of politicians, academics and citizens in today’s society.

Personal convenience, wealth preservation, eradication of the deformed and the good of the community as a whole were reasons that parallel Roe VS. Wade in contemporary US culture and Ralph Northam’s comfortably humane starvation of full term infants reflects Carthage in ways that make some of us cringe.

As is the case today the babies in Carthage had little choice in the matter because the barbaric practice was carried out to make life better for the adults. Human sacrifice is so widespread in western nations, particularly the US under the false flag of choice, that it is not regarded as barbaric but advertised as a benefit to women and society at large. Again, it is sold as a benefit the community as a whole.

In modern America abortion or infant sacrifice, is used as a regulating agent to control the breeding of disfavored races of humans and they are vastly overrepresented in the carnage. There is scant evidence that Carthage used their infanticide to cull the human herd of undesirables as the US is doing today.

Following their defeat Carthage abandoned the practice of human sacrifice and there was probably a backlash among the people who had been proselytized to believe it was necessary for the prosperity of the people.

Oddly, in 1973 the practice gained favor again in the US under the banner of Roe VS. Wade and the spark of divinity of millions of souls are extinguished in the drains of health clinics across the nation. A huge modern cottage industry of extermination has propagated and has brought great wealth to the operators of a vast modern death industry.

A contemporary effort to bring the US back from the atavistic depths of an ancient killing field is underway in Alabama as that state’s governor has signed legislation into law banning state infanticide. The moneyed perpetrators will dig in for a fight as they see power and influence slipping away.

It’s time for the United States to follow Carthage by rejecting the barbarism of state infanticide. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; acquiescing makes us all culpable.

Oh look another idiotic thread by the not so missed Ray9 trying to say Abortion is the same as infant sacrifice. Will Ray9 actually comment or do his usual trick of drive by posting and then disappear. I'll go with disappearing for $300 Alex.
 
Carthage was utterly defeated by Rome in 146 BC. It practiced infant sacrifice and there is little doubt it considered itself to be a modern society much like the United States regards itself today. It had various reasons for state infanticide some of which mirror the motives of politicians, academics and citizens in today’s society.

Personal convenience, wealth preservation, eradication of the deformed and the good of the community as a whole were reasons that parallel Roe VS. Wade in contemporary US culture and Ralph Northam’s comfortably humane starvation of full term infants reflects Carthage in ways that make some of us cringe.

As is the case today the babies in Carthage had little choice in the matter because the barbaric practice was carried out to make life better for the adults. Human sacrifice is so widespread in western nations, particularly the US under the false flag of choice, that it is not regarded as barbaric but advertised as a benefit to women and society at large. Again, it is sold as a benefit the community as a whole.

In modern America abortion or infant sacrifice, is used as a regulating agent to control the breeding of disfavored races of humans and they are vastly overrepresented in the carnage. There is scant evidence that Carthage used their infanticide to cull the human herd of undesirables as the US is doing today.

Following their defeat Carthage abandoned the practice of human sacrifice and there was probably a backlash among the people who had been proselytized to believe it was necessary for the prosperity of the people.

Oddly, in 1973 the practice gained favor again in the US under the banner of Roe VS. Wade and the spark of divinity of millions of souls are extinguished in the drains of health clinics across the nation. A huge modern cottage industry of extermination has propagated and has brought great wealth to the operators of a vast modern death industry.

A contemporary effort to bring the US back from the atavistic depths of an ancient killing field is underway in Alabama as that state’s governor has signed legislation into law banning state infanticide. The moneyed perpetrators will dig in for a fight as they see power and influence slipping away.

It’s time for the United States to follow Carthage by rejecting the barbarism of state infanticide. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; acquiescing makes us all culpable.

Um...

Following their defeat, Carthage had their soil salted by the Romans, their buildings dismantled and their society obliterated.

That seems like a not so great path to be following.
 
Good grief...these anti-choice folks sure don't half ass it, when they decide to create false equivalencies. Damn!
 
Isn’t there a dedicated forum for this?
 
Good grief...these anti-choice folks sure don't half ass it, when they decide to create false equivalencies. Damn!


Yeah. "Infant sacrifice". That made it an absurd comparison, but it can be entertaining watching someone jump through all sorts of hoops to make a square peg fit into a round hole.
 
Isn’t there a dedicated forum for this?


Yes, but maybe we can talk about the similarities between Carthaginian and the current US society here. There are those glaring similarities like:

1. Both were/are human beings.
2. Both needed/need to eat, sleep, defecate, reproduce etc.

and so on...

:)
 
Yes, but maybe we can talk about the similarities between Carthaginian and the current US society here. There are those glaring similarities like:

1. Both were/are human beings.
2. Both needed/need to eat, sleep, defecate, reproduce etc.

and so on...

:)

The Carthaginians were a society that existed over 2000 years ago. Maybe they can be forgiven for not knowing any better.
 
The Carthaginians were a society that existed over 2000 years ago. Maybe they can be forgiven for not knowing any better.

They functioned within the societal parameters of the time and what worked for them; with obvious levels of success and failure. I'm sure 2,000 years from now the same will be said of US society since hindsight is always 20/20.
 
Carthage was famously destroyed - not a good model to emulate

Carthage was utterly defeated by Rome in 146 BC. It practiced infant sacrifice and there is little doubt it considered itself to be a modern society much like the United States regards itself today. It had various reasons for state infanticide some of which mirror the motives of politicians, academics and citizens in today’s society.


Child exposure shows up in ancient mythology; whether it was real or not is hard to say. See Infant exposure - Wikipedia

Child sacrifice in Carthage isn't clear - after Rome destroyed Carthage, Rome waged a PR kind of war against the memory of Carthage. See also the discussion @ Child sacrifice - Wikipedia The evidence isn't clear - were the sites where infants' & animals' remains are found cemeteries for infants who died of natural causes? Or are they the sites of ritual sacrifice?

We may never have enough information to tell, & the documentation that exists is contradictory.

It seems like a long way to go for not much rhetorical effect.
 
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