Supreme Court Druids: Modern human sacrifice to ancient gods.

In 1984 near Manchester, England, a corpse was exhumed, well preserved by the acid of a peat bog. Forensic autopsy showed the deceased had been aged 30, in prime condition with manicured nails. Shortly before death, he had eaten an unleavened rye-wheat-barley cake, partly scorched; he had worn only a fox fur armlet.

History, archaeology, Celtic mythology, and radiocarbon analysis showed that probably: (1) He was called Livornos, from the Gaelic for fox; (2) He had been a high-ranking Druid priest; (3) From a bag of ritual cakes, he had drawn the one which had been specially branded with a scorch mark, and then eaten it; (4) He had been sacrificed on the Prosperity feast of Beltain, May 1, A.D. 61, whose divine help was petitioned to ward off the Romans, whose recent victory nearby had severed the gold trade route; (5) He had been sacrificed to three Celtic gods, whose Teutonic names survive in Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: to Teutates, the god of the tribe, by drowning; to Wodin, the war god, by strangulation with a three-knotted garotte, while his jugular was lanced and his blood collected in a bowl; and to Thor, the thunder god, by three blows to the head. Thus they found four separate causes of death.

Mankind has always deified its highest goods and principles; note what these gods stood for: Thor--Power; Teutates--Popularity and the People; Wodin--Pleasure, Perversion, Promiscuity; their pornographic myths revelled in sex and violence; note that Beltain was celebrated on Mayday to ensure a profitable and prosperous harvest. Note that these highest goods all begin with P: Prosperity, Profit, Power, Pleasure, Popularity, Promiscuity, Perversion and Pornography were the principles that justified death to the Druids. Note also that Druids were not only priests but also judges, with legal authority over the Celtic kings; note further that they had control over the international gold trade.

One thousand years ago Catholic kings and judges proclaimed the God of life, love and obedience, tamed the rampant Ps, and abolished legal superstition and human sacrifice. But in 1984, the same year that the corpse was exhumed, the Canadian Supreme Court judges in R. v. Big M Drug Mart held that all gods are equal, in order to abolish Sunday Observance laws. Thus they exhumed from their graves the long-dead trinity of Druid gods; thus, as their brethren of the U.S. Supreme Court had already done 50 years ago, they spurned the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and their highest principles of Love and Obedience. Then they resurrected the same ancient Ps to justify human sacrifice again: Will of the People, Profits, Prosperity, and Power to justify sacrifice of the young, old, weak, sick, or handicapped in euthanasia (Rodriguez, Washington, Airedale); Popularity to justify pornography (Brodie, Roth); women's Profits and Prosperity in careers to justify sacrifice of unborn babies (Morgentaler, Winnipeg, Do bson, Roe v. Wade, Casey, Hill & Stenberg); Pleasure and Promiscuity to justify laws that conflict with rationalizations for sodomy and other sexual perversions (Vriend, Romer). If any principle of law might interfere with such justifications, they struck it down (Winnipeg, Dobson, Hill & Stenberg).

Compare the clinical touch in lancing the jugular to collect blood with lancing the skull to collect brain in partial-birth abortion; compare also the similar rituals: medical and judicial incantations for Celtic liturgy, clinical and judicial gowns for priests' robes, an operating table and judicial desk for altars. Note how rituals persist; near Manchester, in a village tradition whose origins were forgotten long ago, people still gather round a bonfire on May 1, bake ritual oatmeal barley cakes, brand one of them, draw them from a bag, and the one who draws the branded one jumps through the fire. Human sacrifices with ancient rites are still practiced regularly in the Andes.

As Perversion, Pornography and Promiscuity tend to accelerate death directly or indirectly through S.T.D.s, they too are tantamount to human sacrifice. The gods of Hollywood, Wall Street and Madison Avenue revel in all the Ps; their plutocrats and demagogues control our rulers with the Ps in the media.

Perhaps Moses' wife persuaded him to sacrifice his son's foreskin in lieu of human sacrifice (Exodus; 4:24). The same Ps had been deified into similar gods in ancient Egypt; by the Exodus the Jews escaped from slavery and human sacrifice of that Culture of Death. But later Jewish rulers and judges, reintroducing similar sacrifices in Judah and Israel, corrupted their people so that they were enslaved again. Archaeologists have uncovered graveyards of healthy young males of good family (unblemished male yearlings, Lev. 23:12) sacrificed to similar gods for similar Ps in Canaan. Soon about 20% of our women will have sacrificed their firstlings in abortion (the firstlings of the flock, Genesis 4:4). Since the beginning of history every culture that has worshipped such false gods and applied their lethal principles has perished in decadence.

The Creator of life allowed the sacrifice of his only son, Christ, as a final sacrifice to eliminate all other human sacrifice. But now politicians and judges, many claiming to be Catholic, promote them in the Culture of Death. What have we done to our posterity?

Humphrey Waldock, 2642 Ottawa Ave., West Vancouver, B.C., Canada. V7V 2T5, phone [phone], Email: [e-mail]

REFERENCES

Airedale Trust v. Bland, [1993] 1 All E.R. 820.

Dobson v. Dobson, [1999] 2 S.C.R. 753.

Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992); 120 L. ed. 2d 674.

R. v. Brodie, [1962] S.C.R. 571, 681.

R. v. Morgentaler and Scott (1988), 44 D.L.R (4th) 385, 1988 1 S.C.R. 30.

Rodriguezv. B.C.A.G., [1994] 3 S.C.R. 519.

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973); 35 L. ed. 2d 147.

Romer v. Evans, 116 S. Ct 1620 (1996), 134 L. ed. 2d 855.

Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476 (1957), 1 L. ed. 2d 1498.

Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S. Ct. 2258 (1997); 138 L. ed 772.

Winnipeg Child and Family Services v. G. (D.F.); [1997] 3 S.C.R. 925.

U.S.S.C., June, 2000, Hill v. Colorado, Stenberg v. Carhart, Boy Scouts of America v. Dale.

Tierney, Patrick, The Highest Altar (NY: Viking, 1989).

Ross, Anne and Robins, Don, The Life and Death of a Druid Prince (London: Summit Books, 1989).

John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), 1995.