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Rethinking Child Sacrifice

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  Rethinking Child Sacrifice Could sacrificing all the Palestinian children to Jehovah make Jesus come back? There's only one way to find out. CRAIG NELSEN When I asked Peruvian commenter  Aldonichts   to compare the political mood in Peru to that here in the US, this was part of the response, “However, I feel that in the global South, we are even more free and fresh. Europe is for us today just a great museum to visit, and the USA a great amusement park.” Okay, fair enough. But what kind of amusement park? I could easily live in South America. Here’s one of the things I like about it: I was staying in a small hotel in a small town in Venezuela. One evening, I had dinner in a little restaurant near the hotel and it was such a pleasant experience that it quickly became my regular spot. It was a family-run business. Mom was in the kitchen, dad was tending bar, the older kids were waiters, the younger kids bussed tables, grandma collected payments. One evening, I arrived as usual for