2 Boys, 1 Woman Killed as Human Sacrifices to ‘Saint Death’ in Mexico
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Eight people have been arrested for allegedly killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for "Saint Death" in Mexico. (AP)
Eight people have been arrested in for allegedly killing two boys and one woman as human sacrifices for La Santa Muerte — the saint of death — in Northern Mexico, authorities said.
The boys, both 10, and woman, 55, were killed and their blood poured around an altar to the saint in a cult ritual, Jose Larrinaga, spokesman for Sonora state prosecutors told the Associated Press.
According to the AP, there had previously been no confirmed cases of human sacrifices to the saint in Mexico. “Saint Death,” depicted as a skeleton dressed in a long robe and carrying a scythe, has in recent years become a favorite among criminals and drug traffickers in Mexico, though is not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
The first of the three victims was apparently killed in 2009, the second in 2010 and the latest earlier this month, Larringa said. Investigations suggest their throats and wrists were slit and their blood was poured around an altar, he said.
“The ritual was held at nighttime, they lit candles,” Larrinaga said. “They sliced open the victims’ veins and, while they were still alive, they waited for them to bleed to death and collected the blood in a container.”
Authorities began investigating this month after the last victim, 10-year-old Jesus Octavio Martinez Yanez, was reported missing March 6. The investigation turned up the altar site in the Sonora city of Nacozari, about 70 miles south of Douglas, Arizona, according to the AP.
Those arrested include Silvia Meraz and her son Ramon Palacios, who Larrinaga said were leaders of the cult dedicated to La Santa Muerte. He said Meraz allegedly spread the blood around the altar while Palacios allegedly killed the victims. The suspects, many of them relatives, ranged in age from a 15-year-old girl to a 44-year-old woman.
“We all agreed to do it. Supposedly she was a witch or something,” Meraz told reporters Friday, referring to the woman victim.
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Comments (123)
c.foster4722
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:55pmISLAM, and this cult should get along just fine! Except for the killing of the boy child. After all women are expendable in their eyes!!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:32pmMexico… is just returning… to it’s Aztec ROOTS!
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 7:52pm“Note also that any one of his possessions which a man vows as doomed to the Lord, whether it is a human being or an animal, or a hereditary field, shall be neither sold nor ransomed; everything that is thus doomed becomes most sacred to the Lord. All human beings that are doomed lose the right to be redeemed; they must be put to death.”
“Take your son, your only son – yes, Isaac, whom you love so much – and go to the land of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will point out to you.” (Genesis 22:1-18)
Your holy book isn’t exactly peaceful either…
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:37pmAbout 70 miles south of Douglas Arizona? Isn‘t this HomeLand Security’s No Travel Zone? Bring on the “Open Borders” policy of this administration, after all there’s a lot of 10 year old boys in America, we’ll never notice the loss of a few! (Holder’s Justice Theory?)
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:09pmMaybe Aztec is the right religion.. how do you know otherwise?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:11pm@SCIENCE…
Report Post »Your view of History and the Bible seems Human Limited… GOD’s view is over Generations: The sacrifice of Christ was the Fulfillment of Isaac (see below)!
chingachgook
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 9:20amMakes one wonder doesn’t it. Good combo drugs and paganism.
Report Post »chingachgook
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 9:27am@ SCIENCEISNOTEVIL
Report Post »get real, of what you speak is the act of giving something of value to the Lord, as part of a sacrifice. The sacrifice of the only son was not carried out and was allegorical any way. Now it is just a 20 dollar bill or some such thing. The old testament is full of symbolism and such. When was the last eye removal ceremony official carried out by anything but some drug crazed cult.
FleeWacoWhileYouCan
Posted on April 3, 2012 at 2:22pmHey SCIENCEISNOTEVIL, what actually happened to Isaac?
Report Post »Teabunny
Posted on April 11, 2012 at 10:26am(same origins as santeria, which was the way the caribbean peoples hid their true faith from Christian missionaries and their forced conversions) The precise origins of the cult of Santa Muerte are a matter of debate, but it is most likely a syncretism between Mesoamerican and Catholic beliefs.[1] Mesoamerica had always maintained a certain reverence towards death, which manifested itself among the religious practices of ancient Mexico, including in the Aztec religion. Death became personified in Aztec and other cultures in the form of humans with half their flesh missing, symbolizing the duality of life and death. The Aztecs inherited from their ancestors the gods Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl, the lord and lady of Mictlan, the realm of the dead, who died of natural causes. In order for the deceased to be accepted into Mictlan, offerings to the lord and lady were necessary. Many of the offerings given then are the same as those offered to Santa Muerte today.
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:02pmSaint Death “not recognized by the Roman Catholic Church”. Really? I’m shocked!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 6:08pmCHRISTIAN THEOLOGY 101:
Report Post »Christ… was the GOD Given sacrifice, to replace the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham… and GOD accepted Chist, his son, as The Perfect Sacrafice… ENDING ALL SACRIFICE TO GOD!
youdidthis
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:59pmALIENS UFO : IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE FOUND & PRESENTED BY SCIENTISTS…NO MORE BS ! 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRyZyvcyeGI&context=C4d84855ADvjVQa1PpcFNMRzNgHU7ndew-KP11SK96OqGYtj2-Nm0=
Bizarre “Sun Signs” Phenomenon (2012) The End is Near?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1D3OLdTgEs
i think most people better wake the fluke up…you have been lied 2…
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:21pmCan we pleeeeze get going on building the border fence again? Come On! sickos.
Report Post »vermindust
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:18pmPeople like this are the reason we can’t cast nice spells.
Report Post »Zuitsuit
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:48pmWhat do you expect? This is mexico. mexico is one of the most evil and demonic places on this earth and they are bringing their satanic religion with them across the border.
Report Post »DrPraetorius
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:40pmThis is a resurgence, in a Christian guise, of the Aztec Gods Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl Lord and Lady Death. Human sacrifice to these gods was a major part of the Aztec religious calendar. It it is still seen in the Dia de los Muertos celebration. Right down to the candy skulls. According to the Aztecs, the gods needed human blood to live. It is also an offering for the help of the gods. Somebody wants the help of the gods of death. I would guess they want someone dead and want help in doing it.
This is not a Catholic issue. Paganism still flourishes around the world under the cover of the outside religions be they Catholic, Protestant or even Islam.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:04pm“This is not a Catholic issue. Paganism still flourishes around the world under the cover of the outside religions be they Catholic, Protestant or even Islam.”
Very true.
Keep saying it. I don’t think many atheists know this.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:06pm“This is not a Catholic issue. Paganism still flourishes around the world under the cover of the outside religions be they Catholic, Protestant or even Islam.”
Add some stupid protestants Christians too
*Sign*
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:07pmSigh not sign
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:42pmAnd all through the Old Testament of the Bible, we read of human sacrifices to molech (small m intentional) the moon god? Who became known as allah? Are we on to something yet? (Can this be the root of honor killings?)
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:37pmThe only hope for America is God, the father.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:48pmFrom Your Mouth To Gods Ears
Report Post »EndTheGOPTEA
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:31pmReligion and Nationalism are the two most separating things on the planet, They DO NOT bring us together.
Report Post »Abolish Both and lets get on with the Future.
paperpushermj
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:46pmAnd that Future starts when the Vulcan Survey Ship Lands.
Report Post »Rekindledfire
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:41pm@ Caveman74
Acts 9:4-5
“He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
“Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked.
“I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.”
So Jesus is asking why Saul (Saint Paul) was persecuting “HIM”. But lets put this in context…by reviewing prior passages.
Acts 8:3
“But Saul made havock of the church, entering in from house to house, and dragging away men and women, committed them to prison.”
We see here that Saul is persecuting the “church” and members of the church, which to Jesus is just like persecuting him. This is the same Catholic Church that has been around for 2000 years. These early Christians were the Catholic Church…same Holy Tradition as we have today…same moral authority. There were no protestants at this time. Just one True and Holy Church. The Church that Christ instituted on earth. In context we can see that this is True…to persecute the Catholic Church is to persecute Christ Jesus.
Report Post »toto
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:30pmI have lived long enough to have been around when there was both more patriotism and more allegiance to Judeo Christian principles. It was a much kinder, gentler, more civil time without the massive public moral and attitudinal ugliness that pervades today’s reality.
Report Post »puddleglum
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 3:45pm“Religion and Nationalism are the two most separating things on the planet, They DO NOT bring us together.
Report Post »Abolish Both and lets get on with the Future.”
This was alot more convincing a hundred years ago before the atheist internationalists murdered 100,000,000+ people getting on with their Future.
BodieSD
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 5:45pmAll we have to do is cave in to the marxist ideal! Because we know that millions weren’t killed in Cambodia to bring that little utopia about. Or tens of millions killed to keep the Soviet Union going in PEACETIME. And we know the peaceful history of the Cultural Revolution in China. 50 million people killed to satisfy the whims of Mao. Sounds hunky-dory to me. Where can I sign up?
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:04pmReligion and Christianity are not necessarily synonymous. True Christianity requires a change of heart, from self worship to love of God Who loves all and would have His own show mercy and tell that God Himself, (Jesus said “I and The Father are One”, meaning He wasn’t the child of God as we are through accepting His sacrifice and being adopted into the family of God, but rather THAT GOD.Who looked down with love and mercy on a fallen sinful world, and said “I will go and pay the price of their sin with My own death.”) because He Is God and can separate His different personalities. (most of us are son or daughter, brother or sister, cousin, etc and friend, we just can’t separate those personalities to be in more than one place at once, God can!)
Report Post »He caused just His shadow to hover over a virgin and it was enough for the Creator, to become the created, and God the Father still in Heaven to form the body of The Son within her womb. Thus our Savior was conceived, and born, grew, taught, healed, and paid the price for your AND my sins! It takes faith to believe, but it also takes faith to believe an all-powerful government cares enough about each of us, to handle EVERYTHING CONCERNING LIFE AND DEATH CALLED HEALTHCARE! DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT RELIGION BECAUSE THAT FITS THE DEFINITION BETTER THAN A CHANGE OF HEART AND BEING FILLED WITH LOVE FOR OTHERS!
Blacktooth
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 4:01pmMil Mom,
Can you give us the scriptural texts that would support your explanation?
Your story does not have biblical support.
You said; “GOD.Who looked down with love and mercy on a fallen sinful world, and said “I will go and pay the price of their sin with My own death.”
The Holy Scriptures does not say that. All of us need to be careful not to misrepresent what is written.
Report Post »conservativewoman
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:09amThose of you who pass on false information about the Catholic Church (worship of Mary and Saints) sound more distant from God than your claims about Catholics. We know why you do this. Protestants and secularist are in rebellion. Some of you have come so far in rebellion that you claim that a Christian need only read the bible, and not congregate with other Christians. Satan has done his work in keeping Christians from unity. That has made it much easier for attacks on the Church. Divide and conquer! And you totally play into it.
Report Post »Because of your prejudice, some of you have helped the current administration go after Catholics. You do not see that we are now in the forefront of battling against evil and carrying the cross for the rest of you. You have no appreciation for this, but when they come for your church, I am sure you will want our support, which we will give you.
As you can tell by my comments, I am not as pius as some of my brethren. God has asked some of us to be a Warrior for God and his Church.
TXPilot
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:38amI predict, that vacation packages to Mexico, are going to be getting very cheap this Summer.
Report Post »john654
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:55amThanks for the post. Everyone, I hope will soon realize, that the only hope for America and the World is the Holy Catholic Church.
John
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:56amIf the history of the Catholic Church was not that of child molestation, genital mutilation (castration of boys), waging countless wars, torturing hundreds of thousands in the multiple eras of inquisition , denying scientific discovery, denying the congregation to read a Bible in their own language, and believing that you physically consume the blood and body of Christ, then I might be tempted to believe you. However, my family is Catholic and my Grandfather has even been in a recent book from the Knights of Columbus honoring men of the Catholic faith based on their works. I have no doubt that there are decent and good people in the Catholic religion, but the Catholic religion is not itself decent or good. In fact, the Catholic Church and indeed the Pope himself support communism and a single world government and monetary system. Most people do consider religion as a form of government and the Catholic Church (along with Islam and a few other religions) seek to control as much of the human population as they can.
Remember, a church is any place that two or more meet in prayer. And anytime you pray, you are praying with the Lord, so all you need is a Bible. Personally, I think that most people just use Church as a way to network and gain social status, so I totally reject your argument.
Report Post »Copo
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:59amI was raised a Catholic so I do know for a fact that there is Mary worship in the Church. What are the first 2 words of that one Mary prayer, please reflect on them and tell me how that’s not worship. A Christian needs to let Christ into his heart and needs to spread God’s word, allow God to use their life to spread the good news.
Report Post »Rekindledfire
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:31pm@COPO
You would be wise to read Luke 1:28: “Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.” This was the Angel Gabriel…I am thinking that if you are referring to the first two words above, you have just judged that the Angel Gabriel has sinned against God the Father for worshipping Mary. I realize that you were raised Catholic, but did you ever try fully accepting the Truth that Catholic Church actually teaches.
Report Post »caveman74
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:59pmthou shalt have no gods before me (marry and the saints, the pope, the preachers etc.etc.etc),Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth (the crucifix, the rosary, the church alter),Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me(genuflecting to the crucifix and the “padre”), Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.(invoking the name of God as though the church alone can dictate the will of god). Catholics are wonderful people. The catholic church has been a festering soar on the face of humanity since its inception, break as many of the dictates of our creator as it can every step of the way. Sorry just one mans thoughts
Report Post »mlebates
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:09pmI am not Catholic, but I do believe that Mary was a sacred vessel in which Christ came. She was chosen because of the woman she was. Even as young as she was, she was recognized a pure and goodly. She deserves sacred recognition for the role she played, because I know no one now would be able to do it. She was nearly stoned to death because of this. Joseph also deserves sacred recognition for his role in accepting her pregnancy, and the role he played as Christ’s earthly father.
However, I strongly believe that we are only saved through Christ, and even He states that He is the way, the truth, and the light, that no one can come unto the Father but by Him. I pray to Jesus Christ as the mediator between me and my Heavenly Father. (I do not believe in the trinity because there are far too many scriptures which point to the fact that Christ is a separate being from God the Father. Such as when he is resurrected and he is speaking to Mary Magdalene, and he tells her not to touch him for he has not yet ascended to his father, but to go to His bretheren and say unto them “I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God and your God.”)
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:51pmThe problem with the Mary worship or Maryolotry is I Timothy, Chapter Two Verse five: For there is one God and One mediator between God and Men, the man, Christ Jesus. The Catholic Church takes tradition and the inspiration of the Pope and raises it above the Bible. The Catholic Church has killed hundreds of thousands of people who want only the Bible as the true source of the will of God. The Catholic Church has killed people for the sin of translating the Bible to the common tongue i.e. Tyndale. The sins of the Catholic Church are mostly against God.
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:49pm@SGTB
“If the history of the Catholic Church was not that of child molestation…”
Given and answered. If you don’t want to accept that the Catholic Church is working diligently to prevent this from continuing then nothing will satisfy you.
Everything else that you cite in your tirade deals with history (from 109 years to an eon ago) and will never occur again. In addition you are judging from our current morals and ethics which we value today and are utterly different than the historical societies in which those events occurred.
“…believing that you physically consume the blood and body of Christ…”
If you believe that all you need is the Bible (aka Sola Scriptura) then I don’t know what you do with the direct quote from John 6, “55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.” Jesus’ own words.
“However, my family is Catholic and my Grandfather has even been in a recent book from the Knights of Columbus honoring men of the Catholic faith based on their works.”
Report Post »I don’t know how citing that will add weight to your argument. It’s not germane since you distance yourself from your Catholic heritage.
(cont)
kryptonite
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:55pm@Rekindledfire
I am thinking that if you are referring to the first two words above, you have just judged that the Angel Gabriel has sinned against God the Father for worshipping Mary.
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WHOA! That was a greeting message, NOT a prayer. BIG, BIG difference. No one in the NT prays to or worships Mary. In fact, Jesus himself, knowing the idolatrous tendencies of fallen humankind, made it very clear that Mary was not to be worshiped or viewed as a sacred being:
=> “And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:27-8).
Can you picture that? The Son of God himself is preaching to the crowds, and instead of praising GOD, that carnally-minded woman starts praising Mary. So I guess you are partially right. Those who “universally” put religion and idolatry before God and his Word, have existed ever since Adam and Eve chose Satan‘s words over God’s commandments. Thank God someone dared protest that.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 4:04am@PaxInVeritate
then I don’t know what you do with the direct quote from John 6, “55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.” Jesus’ own words.
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We interpret it the way Jesus meant it. If you read further on, He summarized what He had preached: “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”
Those who interpreted Jesus’ words literally took offense at him. Unlike Roman Catholics, Jews were very aware that God forbids the drinking of blood. Jesus, and later on the Apostle Paul, both explained that the bread and the wine are taken in remembrance of Christ’s sacrifice.
Under the law, the blood of animals was applied in the natural realm for the atonement of sins. Similarly, the blood of Jesus is to be applied in the spirit realm to wash away our sins. There was no drinking of blood under either covenant, because it is an abomination to God (Lev. 17: 10-14), and one of the few ordinances of the law that was carried over into the dispensation of grace (Acts 15).
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 12:43amOkay, to be as brief as possible… will cite the passages which you will either know or have to look up. In the end however, it is a matter of Faith that Jesus meant what He said. Oh, by the way, there wasn’t Roman Catholics when Jesus said these words, so that part of your argument is irrelevant, but you are correct in the matter of drinking actual blood from animals. And as for taking Jesus’ words literally, they did so because He meant it literally.
Report Post »1 Cor 11:23-29; Mk 14:22-24; Mt 26:26-28; Lk 22:15-20; Jn 6:53-56; 60,66…. All of these are one in accord in that they state directly Jesus’ intent… that the bread (real food) is His Body, and the wine (real drink) is His Blood. As you note in John 6:60,66 that Jesus did not call back the disciples that found his declaration to hard to accept. Indeed He stated that what He said was a matter of Faith given by the Father, “He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them.” “[U]nless the Father has enabled them.” is a direct reference to Faith, for Faith is a Grace from God. You are right to bring up the Oblation Sacrifice. Under the Old Covenant blood and fat were appointed by God as an atonement, and were therefore reserved for God. Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant (Matthew 5:17-18) and established a New Covenant (or Testament, Matthew 26:28).
PaxInVeritate
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 12:53amThe blood in which you speak of in Acts 15:20,21; 29 is blood from animals and does not pertain to the Commemorative Meal established by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper.
Report Post »Now the question remains, does the bread turn into real flesh and wine into real blood? In this we go to the nature of things. The bread and wine remain unleavened bread and the wine remains fermented grapes in it’s appearance and natural qualities. However, through the Grace of the Holy Spirit in the utterance of Jesus’ words the bread and wine take on supernatural qualities. That being His Body and Blood, for His Glorified presence is supernatural and a Sacrament, given that He is the perfect Oblation Sacrifice for the sins of the world.
This New Covenant is not figurative. If it was, Paul wouldn’t have stated in 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; “Brothers and sisters: the cup of blessing we bless, is it not a participation in the Blood of Christ? The bread we break, is it not a participation in the Body of Christ?”, and further, in 1 Corinthians 10:29; “…because a person who eats and drinks without recognizing the Body is eating and drinking his own condemnation”. Paul is speaking directly to the Passover meal in which Jesus Christ commanded His Apostles and Disciples to commemorate His Oblation Sacrifice.
PaxInVeritate
Posted on April 2, 2012 at 12:55amIf you want to continue to insist that what Jesus was speaking of was a metaphor for spiritual matters the by all means go right ahead. But remember Paul’s warning in 1 Corinthians 10:16-17;29. As for me, I accept His word at face value.
Report Post »John 6:47-50 says “I tell you most solemnly, everybody who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and they are dead; but this is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a man may eat it and not die.”
JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:06amThose eight miscreants need to be ‘sacrificed’ to Saint Justice.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:34pmYes, they do. LOL
Report Post »IMCHRISTIAN
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:05amShe was something all right as she was a child of God. Sooner or later they and all of us will be judged. Life is short and eternity is forever so live life as God would want you to, Prayers are for the families of the victims.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:58amIsn’t that statue of Piven in a white hoodie?
Report Post »VoteRightDammit
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:21amPelosi.
She is looking a bit gaunt, isn’t she?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:36pmYou are all funny today. I think it may be…..uuuummmm. He has gone white with anticipation of being center stage.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:09amRemember who the Spanish priests converted in south America? They were using human sacrifice, and the church was trying to stamp it out. For which I give the catholic church a plus. If the hadn’t been there stealing the gold and silver for the church, as well as land, they would have gone on their merry way worshipping “their gods”. There the catholic church and Spain get a huge negative. When I hear those from Mexico talk about stealing land I almost have to laugh. The church had a very brutal way of dealing with those who didn’t worship their way, but all in all it was kind of a different world then. Bringing us to today, you would think people would know better, but living with the real hell that Mexico is now with cartels, they have “backslid” maybe as a defence against the evil they live with. Still, evil is evil and my heart tells me they are pure evil to murder-especialy children
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:27amI know. I thought it was insane how my kids would be taught about the evil Christians in school. They took away people’s culture. (which was sacrificing women and children but they failed to mention that part!!) Social science is all about hate whitey. They don’t even call it history anymore.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:32amY’all think thats bad….THE SPANNISH INQISITION, anyone??
Report Post »inblack
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:46pm@JENNY LIND
WHAT? You dare to compare Spain’s record in South America to our SLAUGHTER of natives in North America?
The only place that significant indigenous people survived in this hemisphere is where the Spanish taught, fed and cared for them.
The so called “Christian” nation here in the US murdered the native people and stole their land and resources.
Ignorant people like you should learn history before you shoot off the anti-church bigotry you’ve been taught by the leftist anti-God media.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:08amHmmm, you wouldda thought they’d invite the Pope to the ceremonies?
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:31amI‘m not Catholic but I went to my kid’s Stations of the Cross mass last week. It was so meaningful and so full of love for others. Catholic bashers have no clue to what they are talking about or what they are missing. Meanwhile at the secular school, there are no morals and lots of mean people and bullies.
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:38amWhy? They are not Catholics. Period. They are Satanists.
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:07amIsn‘t this the culture where they would carry ’volunteers’ to the top of the pyramid, so the high priests could feel a beating heart in their hands, after ripping it from the chests of the living unfortunate? I wonder what the volunteers were thinking?
Report Post »Copo
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:03pmIsn’t that from an Indiana Jones movie…
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:50amObama was sited at the ritual. Film at 11:00.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:39amSalem had the right idea about witches.
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:34amOnly there were no witches in Salem……only religious fanatics
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:36amNaaaa! Witches were actually forward-thinkers trying different things as healing-medications. Also was a great excuse for kings/leaders to get rid of undisireables…canyou say…Margrate Sanger?
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:42amWhen my youngest son came home from public school stating that none of those accused in Salem were in fact witches, I told him that all women were witches a few days a month. Oh, come on, that’s funny. Lighten up.
Report Post »Espada
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:23pmSREGN…
It’s called PMS.
(Because “mad cow disease” was already taken!)
Report Post »inblack
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:50pm@G-WHIZ
Nice story – did u learn that from Hollywood?
Report Post »savethehumans
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:36amWe’ve had legal Human Sacrifice here in America since 1973. There have been been 53 million innocent children sacrificed to the god of self and the gov‘t sponsored religion of irresponsibility for one’s actions. These innocent souls are burned, poisioned or dismemebered and then thrown in a dumpster or used for scientific research. The gov‘t calls this Women’s Healthcare.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:28amSPOT ON, SPOT ON, SPOT ON!!!!
Human sacrifice to the god of human secularism performed daily by the supposedly the most enlightened society in the world. Murder a child and you get jail time. Murder a child in the womb and you get government grants, accolades from the liberal press and even a nice clinic to work from.
Americans, sooner or later, the chickens will come home to roost. It has already started. Because of our worship of the god of Secular Humanism and the rejection of the GOD of the bible, America is on the slippery slope to self distruction just as every major civilization has in the past.
We can turn it around BUT it starts with cleaning out the House and Senate along with the Oval Office. Term Limits on all elected officials. A total revamping of the Plantation welfare system and a return to GOD’s principles by Americans of every race, color and ethnic background.
It will start when all Americans get on their knees and ask God’s forgiveness for our personal and national sins.
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:32amYou are so right. It’s very sick. People’s eyes are completely shut.
Report Post »666Sucks
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:17amAbsolutely spot on! I must confess, before I woke up and witnessed a true miracle, I was one of those animals, and as a result, I sacrificed my own. I will have to live with that for eternity! A pray for forgiveness every day, but will accept God’s judgement. For the rest of my mortal time however, I will do what I can to wake up whomever I can.
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:00pmIn agreement here. A woman’s right to choose is before she has sex. Not after.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:32pmYes I agree Savethehumans and starman70, but GOD could not have made the prophecies He made unless He knew that mankind would reach the point of no return. If you read revelation and about the day of GOD’s wrath upon all mankind, for all the terrible things that will come; man will still refuse to repent: they will even be so deceived that they will fight against the living Christ when He returns. So what I am trying to say is that this repentance that must occur to save us is not going to happen. You can however save yourself, but this country NO.
Report Post »dnewton
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 4:19pmYou center punched that one.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:17pm@savethehumans
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:36am
We’ve had legal Human Sacrifice here in America since 1973. There have been been 53 million innocent children sacrificed to the god of self and the gov‘t sponsored religion of irresponsibility for one’s actions. These innocent souls are burned, poisioned or dismemebered and then thrown in a dumpster or used for scientific research. The gov‘t calls this Women’s Healthcare
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Amen! It Bears Double Posting!
And b o and hhs just told the Catholic Church and all Americans they must pay for it!
Mil Mom
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:54pm@666Sucks
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 11:17am
Absolutely spot on! I must confess, before I woke up and witnessed a true miracle, I was one of those animals, and as a result, I sacrificed my own. I will have to live with that for eternity! A pray for forgiveness every day, but will accept God’s judgement. For the rest of my mortal time however, I will do what I can to wake up whomever I can
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On the cross Jesus said, “It is finished.” (John 19:30) Meaning that the price for your sin, and anyone’s sin that will ask Him for forgiveness and turn from it, IS PAID! The sinless One, paid the price of death, and now all of us who have sinned have total forgiveness. So don’t live your life in fear of Judgement, because when you get there, they’ll bring out a book called “The Book of Life” in Matt 26:28 Jesus told His followers that the sacrament of wine which they should drink regularly in remembrance of His death was to be done “For this is My blood, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (That means totally washing away!) and He told His followers to “Rejoice because your names are written in Heaven!” (Luke 10:20) These weren‘t men and women who’d never sinned, but those who’d accepted His forgiveness! And the minute you prayed for forgiveness, and turned from your sin, Your name also, was written there! So move forward in faith, knowing He paid your price, and serve through LOVE, NOT FEAR!
DeVain
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:06amThere are nutters in every belief system, and it doesn’t necessarily reflect the belief system.
Report Post »Quixotic-911
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:36amTheir are sane people in every nutty belief system and that doesn’t necessarily reflect upon the belief system. (Think Islam)
Report Post »Sniper48
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:45amThis same activity is done daily right here in the western world, but here only adult males are sacrificed so, who cares?
Report Post »Rekindledfire
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:44amWell of course it isn’t recognized by the Roman Catholic Church….thank you for clearing that up for us Blaze…just in case anyone was confused about what Christ’s Holy Church honors. Just because it has the word “Saint” in it‘s name doesn’t mean this was a an actual person that performed Saintly works here on earth. This is pure devil whorship…plain and simple.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:43amPeople south of the border can not separate their pagan roots from Christianity…not a good reflection on those who are teachers of the word.
Plenty of CULTS south of the border.
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on April 1, 2012 at 7:54amThe only “worship” going on here is the worship of the Angel of Death, Satan! Just because you take bones and put a shawl on it, doesn’t make it any more than what it is representing, DEATH! Satan is the bearer of death–did he not lie in the beginning, “Surely you will not REALLY DIE”? (Emphasis mine).
Pleople who can’t give God themselves often worship that which they fear.
My God is a God of LIFE! Learn about Him, discover Him and come to Him!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:38amThis is what happens when you worship Mary instead of Christ. You hear that Catholic Church?
SamIamTwo
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:47amNah, they retained their pagan ways and incorporated it into Christianity…it’s not just Catholics…
And this is prob the reason why radical Muslims will be accepted south of the border since they too incorporate paganism into their religion. They will become useful idiots for the Islamic nut cases…jimho
Report Post »SoupSammich
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:49amNorthern Mehico? Wouldn’t that be Sud Tejas? La Raza says so, so it must be so. Reconquista!
Report Post »Will this help assuage any of the Zimmerman haters?
tizthetruth
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:59amSeriously. This is what happens? So for two thousand years the Catholic Church has honored Mary, and we’ve seen murderous, devil worshipping, human sacrificing cults crop up around the world as a result. Sorry, but when I honor Mary (I don’t worship her, as worship of anything or anyone other than God is a grave sin), I’m drawn closer to her Son. When will people get that for decades the Mexican government oppressed the Catholic Church? Up until the 1980′s it was illegal for Catholic priests to wear their clerics in public. When Pope John Paul visited, he was breaking the law (in truth). Many Catholics were killed for the faith in Mexico. Why put this at the feet of the Church? It’s not true or fair. And really . . . “not approved by the Church” – as if they for one second considered it? Really? This is journalism at the Blaze?
Report Post »LaudemGloriae
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:01amCatholics do not worship Mary. We understand her to be a creature, as all human beings are creatures. She is not divine. She is venerated as an example of human virture and for being, as the angel states in Luke 1:28, “full of grace.“ The ”Hail, Mary” prayer asks her to pray for us, in the same way that one might ask a friend or a pastor to pray for us, beacuse “the prayers of a righeous man availeth much” (James 5:16). It is not a prayer of worship to Mary. God bless you.
Report Post »Rekindledfire
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:02am@Baddoggy
Report Post »Veneration of the Saints including Mary is not worship. Is Mary not the Mother of Jesus? As members of the Church we are part of the Body of Christ…thus Mary is our Mother also. The Ten Commandments instruct us to HONOR our Father and Mother…so Catholics HONOR Mary. She is not God…Catholics only worship God. You may want to look at Luke 1:48 “For he has looked with favor on the humility of his handmaid. For behold, from this time, all generations shall call me blessed.” If we aren‘t calling Mary Blessed and Honoring her then we aren’t fulfilling her prophecy in the Bible.
Catholics do however ask Mary and all the Saints to “pray for us sinners” (as in the Hail Mary)…just as I am sure you ask or do for your neighbor. Learn a little about the Truth that Christ’s Church Teaches before commenting in prejudice. Educated comments are always welcome!
starman70
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:05amAnd our representatives and the POTUS want to approve the “Dream Act” so we can have more of these devil worshiping idiots in the USA? This is not to say that there are plenty of true Christians, Catholic and otherwise, among the illegals in the USA but the question is, how do you seperate the good from the bad?
How do you keep cultists like these murderers from invading the USA?
Start by enforcing the immigration laws. DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS and make them apply for visas and or temporary work permits. The path to citizenship is clearly marked and has been used by generations of people wanting to come to our country. Why should Mexicans and other Latino illegals be any different?
Report Post »hillbillyinny
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:17amIn the Catholic Church only the Triune God receives WORSHIP, Father, Son and Holy Sprit, three-in-one! Mary is revered for her complete “yes” to God in bearing His Son, the Savior of the World. Do I ask a fellow Christian on this earth to pray for me, yes! Since God and the Saints who have have gone before us are “outside of time” I may ask a Saint to pray for me too, or remember the Saint’s life as a model for my life.
My Father, God,is to be all glorified and worshipped. His Son, the Word Made Flesh, brought us knowledge of the Father and His glorious Gospel, and died on the Cross in payment for OUR SINS–no other physical “sacrifice” is necessary, other than the sacrifice of a contrite heart. The Son was then was Resurrected to New Life through which we have The Hope of the Resurrection! God’s spirit, the Holy Spirit lives within His children and provides knowledge and guidance throughout our life.
And as @SamIamTwo reminds us, many pagan practices have been kept by those who have been “converted” to many faiths. And even abuses by some of Church practices. There are rubrics and other true information availabe for those who WANT to be educated.
Welcome to the TRUE TEACHINGS of the Catholic Church. Didn‘t wan’t others to be as illiterate as you seem to be!
The TRUTH will set you free, if you only embrace it!
Report Post »Rekindledfire
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:40am@hillbillyinny, @tizthetruth, @LaudemGloriae
Well said everyone!! True Unity!
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:43amSome Catholics worship Mary many do not. I think it is mostly the commie loving Jesuit priests and the liberation theologons from the America’s.
Report Post »We should come together with the Christian half of the Catholic Church. FYI all the other churches in the America’a are infiltrated with commies too. Wolves in sheep’s clothing. They really represent Satan. Communism/socialism is a tool of Satan.
Baddoggy
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:45amIf you dont think Mary and Patron Saint worship isnt driving this you are foolish. It is huge in Mexico and it is rampant in the Catholic Church. Sorry, your religion is out of control because there are some who have kicked Christ out of the Church to worship those saints that can give them things…Kinda like some of the Evangelicals ahve preached the health and wealth mesage over the true message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ…Now they find their Churches are becoming bankrupt.
The only messae we preach is Christ crucified for the forgiveness of sin.
Report Post »Inlightofthings
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 9:48amBADDOGGY…I used to read your posts. Not any more.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:25am@LaudemGloriae
Examine The Legion of Mary and then let’s talk about if Mary is worshiped or not. Regardless, this Saint of Death cult has nothing to do with the Church.
Report Post »PaxInVeritate
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:27amBADDOGGY,
Report Post »I will fast and pray (and yes recite the mysteries of our Lord’s Life, Death and Resurrection found within the Rosery) for your enlightenment and softening of your heart.
Those that did this are not followers of Jesus Christ.
cykonas
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 10:39am@ everyone trying to explain the Catholic position on Mary and the Saints to Baddoggy
Please don’t waste your time. BD is obviously an ignorant putz with a small and tightly closed mind. It’s not worth your efforts to try to enlighten him. Let him (them) smolder in their own hate and ignorance. Peace.
Report Post »wdittgasn
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:46pmWORSHIP of Mary is just Semiramis worship ( the wife of Nimrod) She is the creator of all this false religion, she did so to keep Nimrod’s regime together. This queen of heaven woman can be found in all pagan religions, just study, it’s all there if you look. All That Catholics did was to stamp the name of Christianity over all of the pagan crap. Rev 12:9 The WHOLE world is deceived not just a small part, get it WHOLE.
Report Post »RebelYell1862
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 1:44pm@BADDOGGY You’re absolutely right. I am a Christian and Jesus is my Lord and Savior not Mary. Mary didn’t die for my sins or forgive me of them. The catholic church has been the problem with the Christian church down through the ages. Nowhere in the Bible can I find a commandment to set one man (the pope) up as God on earth and ask me to kiss his ring.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 8:23amEvil bastards in this world that’s for sure.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 12:30pmvery evil!!!
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