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Manuel
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Manuel
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 Posted - 07 Apr 2004 : 10:53:47
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From: "The Two Babylons"
by Alexander Hislop,
Chapter III, Section II
Easter
Then look at Easter. What means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, aas found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. The worship of Bel and Astarte was very early introduced into Britain, along with the Druids, "the priests of the groves." Some have imagined that the Druidical worship was first introduced by the Phoenicians, who, centuries before the Christian era, traded to the tin-mines of Cornwall. But the unequivocal traces of that worship are found in regions of the British islands where the Phoenicians never penetrated, and it has everywhere left indelible marks of the strong hold which it must have had on the early British mind. From Bel, the 1st of May is still called Beltane in the Almanac; and we have customs still lingering at this day among us, which prove how exactly the worship of Bel or Moloch (for both titles belonged to the same god) had been observed even in the northern parts of this island. "The late Lady Baird, of Fern Tower, in Perthshire," says a writer in "Notes and Queries," thoroughly versed in British antiquities, "told me, that every year, at Beltane (or the 1st of May), a number of men and women assemble at an ancient Druidical circle of stones on her property near Crieff. They light a fire in the centre, each person puts a bit of oat-cake in a shepherd's bonnet; they all sit down, and draw blindfold a piece from the bonnet. One piece has been previously blackened, and whoever gets that piece has to jump through the fire in the centre of the circle, and pay a forfeit...
Full article at:
http://www.acts2.com/thebibletruth/easter.htm
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Manuel
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Posted - 28 Apr 2004 : 10:38:20
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101 USES FOR A DEAD (or live) BABY
by Olga Fairfax, Ph.D
When I saw the first ad on TV advertising collagen-enriched cosmetics I was speechless.
Collagen is the gelatinous substance found in connective tissue,
bone and cartilage. Nick Thimmesch's syndicated column, "Our Grisly
Human Fetal Industry" documents that amniotic fluid and collagen can
come from fetal material, since the Food and Drug Administration does
not require pretesting or the identification of cosmetic ingredients.
A glance through a local drug store revealed that the leading 12
shampoos and five hand creams all contained collagen. . Check your
beauty products and you may be shocked! Unless your beauty product
specifies animal collagen or bovine collagen, the product probably
contains human collagen. The drug company should be challenged at
once. Even collagen taken from a human placenta raises questions about
respect of life and ownership of the placenta.
A letter from Mary Kay Cosmetics emphasizes that their collagen all
comes from animals. A similar letter from Hask has also been received.
Since there are 1.5 million abortions every year, there is an
abundant source of fetuses for commercial use.
There's triple profit to be had. The first is from the abortion
(estimated at a half billion dollars a year by Fortune magazine). The
second profit comes from the sale of aborted babies' bodies. The third
profit is from unsuspecting customers buying cosmetics. . Babies'
bodies are sold by the bag, $25 a batch or up to $5500 a pound. The
sale of later-term elective abortions at D.C. General Hospital brought
$68,000 between 1966 and 1976. The money was used to buy a TV set and
cookies and soft drinks for visiting professors. Personally, I hope
that they choked on the Kool-Aid!
In its entirety at:
http://associate.com/ministry_files/The_Reading_Room/Christian_Ethics_n_Issues_1/101_uses_of_a_dead_baby.shtml
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Babylonian beauty?
