When is a genocide not a genocide?  When it is a "rolling genocide."  When it is an ongoing but never finished extermination of a people targeted for destruction.  When it rolls on, generation after generation.  When it is too profitable to bring to an end. In ancient times, most cultures offered sacrifices to appease or honor their gods.  Throughout the Old Testament, the term "burnt offering" referred to the Jewish ritual burning of crops ("firstfruits") and the sacrifice of animals ("firstborn") as an offering to God.  In older translations of Scripture, the word for burnt offering was "holocaust."  Contrary to common belief, the word did not originate with Hitler's "Final Solution" during World War II. Child Sacrifice Forbidden by God Throughout the pre-Christian world, most cultures, Hebrew and pagan alike, included their own children in...(Read Full Article)