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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (51196)	3/29/2014 2:25:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 69300

Human nature is still what it was then ... but why don't we have people kill one another for real for public entertainment anymore? ------------------ the Judaic ritual need for this probably outdid Rome's Nope, though people don't write much about it, the Greeks and Romans were very big on animal sacrifice. The sacrifice of entire multitudes of animals was quite frequent. It was no coincidence that there was a Greek word for the sacrifice of a hundred oxen - a hecatomb. http://www.roman-empire.net/religion/sacrifice.html