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Re:Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World's Largest by tptacek on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:08PM (#16948262)
We're talking about an archeological find dated roughly 3500 years ago. Within the same span of time, human sacrifice was practiced in parts of Europe as well. Few of us use that fact as an opportunity to spread rumors that the modern-day Italians or Welsh continue to do so.
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Re:Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World's Largest by pvg on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:14PM (#16948289)
Vowel sacrifice is still practiced in the open in Wales.
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Re:Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World's Largest by yosito on Saturday April 28, 2018 @07:09PM (#16949915)
We must have read different articles. The one I read said it was dated around 1450AD.
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Re:Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World's Largest by tptacek on Saturday April 28, 2018 @10:10PM (#16950410)
Ah, you're right. I must have mixed it up with something else I was reading; that article (someone posted it on Fb) sent me off on a reading jag.

My point stands! But, like, an order of magnitude attenuated.

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Re:Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice in Peru May Be World's Largest by adrianratnapala on Sunday April 29, 2018 @11:35PM (#16955531)
It's an important order of magnitude. We are talking about religion here, and among other things, religions are tools for transmitting cultural knowledge and practices down through centuries and millenia. 550 years is not really such a long time for a religion.
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