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"Minucius Felix, a third century Latin apologist, gave a lurid account of Christian debauchery which he claims to have derived from Marcus Cornelius Fontero (100-166 c.e.), a Latin rhetor and tutor of Marcus Aurelius."
A young baby is covered over with flour, the object being to deceive the unwary. It is then served before the person to be admitted into the rites. The recruit is urged to inflict blows onto it--they appear to be harmless because of the covering of flour. Thus the baby was killed with wounds that remain unseen and concealed. It is the blood of this infant--I shudder to mention it--it is the blood of this infant that they lick with thirsty lips; these are the limbs they distribute eagerly; this is the victim by which they seal their covenant....
On a special day they gather in a feast with all their children, sisters, mothers--all sexes and all ages. There, flushed with the banquet after such feasting and drinking, they begin to burn with incestuous passions. They provoke a dog tied to the lampstand to leap and bound towards a scrap of food which they have tossed outside of the reach of his chain. By this means the light is overturned and extinguished, and with it common knowledge of their actions; in the shameless dark with unspeakable lust they copulate in random unions, all equally being guilty of incest, some by deed, but everyone by complicity.... [The Octavius of Marcus Minucius Felix, 9.5-6]. (The Christians As The Romans Saw Them, by Robert L. Wilken; p.18-21).
It's the Christians that eat babies. And copulate with family members. Unless this story is nothing more than the product of imagination and lies, of course. But as we all know ancient writers only recorded accounts of things that were, you should pardon the expression, "gospel" and unquestionably accurate.
They fly to the eye of the hurricane and drift with it.
"Ha! And they say that happens by 'Chance."
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Originally Posted by normstad
Any other urban myths you want to perpetuate?
"What bad experience in the church made you-all hate God?!
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