This is also what my thread "Green Man" is all about. http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/172724/1/Who-is-the-Green-Man
History shows every civilization goes through a "culling" period.
It is all human sacrifice.
Whether it is an increase in offering children up to the gods, or making eunichs and allowing them to live out their lives, curtailing a population explosion before it happens, this behavior has always existed.
When ecology becomes more important than human life.....
"They even tend to treat each other as though they were real plants, sometimes pruning and lopping those whom they wish to curtail.
Like the Green Man who has no female counterpart they tend to exalt the masculine and subdue or conceal the feminine element amongst themselves. " (What is that scripture about anti-christ movement having no regard for the female?)
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The forest clearing becomes a violent battleground in which every plant struggles to the death: in plant terms, to find its own place in a newly established community; in human terms, to kill or be killed.
"Plant people" in their religious beliefs, perhaps by way of the guidance of their religious leaders, are aware of the satanic nature of the material life forces, and though seemingly fascinated by the thought of the wealth and luxury to be found ....(This is a materialistic movement; they proclaim there is not enough on this planet to support life for everyone: some of us must go! And to think they would have promoted this among civilizations thousands of years ago as well!)
http://www.undiscoveredworldspress.com/greenman.html
....Later still, the body of a religion reaches its "plant level"—the emotionally fierce and fanatical level
during which its adherents are easily roused to anger and aggression, even going so far as to believe that
this arrogant plant nature is the true nature of their religion.
During this stage of decline religious people may think nothing of oppressing or even killing others in the
name of their religion, and are liable to stage holy wars to spread their roots and tendrils ever wider.