How many humans have been scarificed by pagans for their beliefs in the last 100,000 years?

Question

Or is it 1,000,000?

I was being FACEtious! My, you Yanks do need to lighten up a bit!
Must be all that decadence
the Commies talk about!

Answer 1

42
:^)

Answer 2

it is not near the ammount that the Christian god has ordered exterminated.

you are useing an umbrella term Pagan that can apply to anyone that is not of your paticular monothestic religion.

so the jews can say that the Christian Pagans butchered them in germany (Hitler and the third riech)

the Christians can say that the Muslim Pagans killed them durring the crusades, and the muslims can claim the same againse the Christian Pagans.

hower if you define Sacrifice as to give something to a god by killing it. then the Myans sacrificed one person each month to renew the cycle of life. the Aztech were about the same

and i do not know what the african religions did, i think that they focused on animal sacrifice. though canabilism was practiced but this was not sacrifice.

with the Celts it is up for grabs as with all european Pagan (worship of more than one god) customs. the earliest thing wrote about them was by Julius Cesar, and that was durring a time of war and conquest. and the Holy Roman Empire was well known for always making themselves look like the good guys and useing any excuese for conquest.

in the few Celtic writings that exist sacrifice is confused with the Gealic word Sacrumferce (spelling may be off here) and that specific word simply meant to make something holy or sacred through ritual. this was used when talking about blessing sacred objects, or prepairing a messanger (human) to speak to the gods. with a strong tradition in astral travel and projection a man would not need to be killed to get his soul to the home of the gods.

this is largely debated especially among Christian fundamentalist's that really want to be able to say that Pagans do human sacrifice. but the facts of history are against them where the european pagans are concerned.

so if you will clarify which Pagans you mean in your question i will figure out a likely number for you. however i think that this question was really just an attempt at trooling and a way to show your bigotry.

Answer 3

I think you might be misinformed about a few things, but Paganism has been around since the beginning. It started out with primitive humans who were ignorant to any explanation for the things that they were witnessing and the God that created them, so they had the basic instinct to worship something since that is one of the things we are made for. That is where things like tree worship, idol creation and sun and moon worship came from. We also have the desire to give to the creator so that is where sacrifice came from. There is no way to get an accurate number of human sacrifices over the span of existence for the obvious reasons. The good news is that there was a human sacrifice that ended all living sacrifices for the rest of eternity. If you were serious about this question and not just making a statment, I hope this helped.

Answer 4

That is an unfair and biased question.

All religions including Christianity has had a violent side where innocent people were killed or sacrificed. The Old Testament even records one human sacrifice to God. You will have to do your own research because i am lazy but a king promised God that if God gave him victory in battle he would sacrifice the first thing he saw when returning home and it just so happened to be his beloved daughter, but because of his oath to God, he sacrificed her.

Pagans killed Christians during the second century and part of the third century, but then when Christianity took over Rome the slaughter was reversed.

What is important is not what was done in the past but what each of us do today what kind of example we are setting for our religion.

Religion has evolved from animal and sometimes human sacrifices to modern day love and compassion and live and let live.

Most religions today are peaceful religions that teach tolerance and forgiveness and love. Not all but most.

I am Wiccan and I believe in harm none and the rule of three. this is a very peacefull way of living.

Answer 5

Hard to say, We don't know how many people the pagans of old might have sacrificed, if any at all (there is archaeological evidence that sacrifice was carried out, but we have no way of knowing if it was pagans, specifically, that did it). You might as well ask how many innocents the Christians slaughtered during the Crusades? How many people did the Romans put to death in the arena? How many people have died at the hands of Muslim extremists? How many Native Americans did the white man exterminate? How many Incas did the Europeans kill? How many people were sacrificed by the Aztecs? How many Jews did Hitler and the Nazi regime slaughter?

Remember that "pagan" is a catch-all term for any non-Christian religion.

Answer 6

Probably not nearly as many as sacrificed in the name of one Christian religion or another. What a question - impossible to answer, since a greater part of the time span you're talking about would have no recorded statistics.

Answer 7

history only started less than 10,000 years ago. I know there are quite a few cultures that practiced human sacrifice. The Canaanites did, and the aztecs and many more but I dont know all of them.

Answer 8

Far, far less than Christians. Christians are the #1 butchers in world history. Some historians estimate the carnage at 100 million non-Christians killed.

Answer 9

There were more than a million Jews sent to the ovens. Who did it was false religion that is technically a pagan.
False religion is responsible for probably billions of people dieing.

Answer 10

well their was countless cases of human sacrifice, not to mention people killing their own children for a pagan deity.

as to the numbers its impossible to tell.

Answer 11

Only the virgins.