On 15 Jan 2003 at 1:50, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > In the past, many cultures supported the killing of babies who had > been born. The killing was sometimes direct, but often indirect. > Rather than kill them directly, the action was to abandon the babies, > like Moses. Sometimes the babies were put into a boat made of reeds. > At other times, the babies were placed on the steps of a church, as in > France. The point is that most abandoned babies would die, but a few > would live. This indirect form of murder helped soften the blow to a > mother who could not support the baby.
The Jewish custom on diasabled babies centuries ago was to "set them aside". Also, the rise of christianity among the Romans was partly because of the prohibition on killing infants. True, part of it was because the army converted en-mass (the early christians adopted the Rites of Mythras as their Mass, and the Army were overwhelmingly Mythras worshipers..) but a lot was the matrons who could then say "my god forbids it" to murdering excess children. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
