Andrew W
2019-06-15 05:15:16 UTC
Was human and animal sacrifice instituted by a good God, evil false god, or
no god?
The idea that human sacrifice (like all forms of sacrifice) reinforced
social hierarchy has been recognized in sociology and religious studies for
over a century. In ancient times human sacrifice was instrumental in
transforming humanity from the small egalitarian groups of our ancestors, to
the large stratified societies we live in today.
Stratified means layered, which means division, whereas egalitarian means
believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve
equal rights and opportunities.
Division, suffering and death/bloodletting is what Christianity still
believes in, mostly in symbolic form, except where Jesus was concerned.
Jesus' sacrifice was for real. It was a barbaric human blood sacrifice,
which strangely goes against Christian values.
It's also rather strange that the much cherished symbol of Christianity, the
cross, is also the Roman form of torture used in Palestine. This all seems
quite sick.
It is widely believed by Christians (and only Christians) that God actually
wanted his son Jesus' bloody death to pay for God being offended by mere
human sin, which was based mostly just on ignorance. Does God, who knows,
sees and understands everything really have such fragile emotions, in fact
more fragile and unstable than most modern humans, that he'd get angry
enough to condemn the little creatures that he created and said were good,
but then brutally has his son killed instead to pay for it?
Something is very wrong with this religion and its god.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ajwerner/
Anyone or anything that sets itself up to be worshipped must be considered a
false god.
Anyone who has a master is a slave.
http://www.rumormillnews.com -- The best alternative news site.
no god?
The idea that human sacrifice (like all forms of sacrifice) reinforced
social hierarchy has been recognized in sociology and religious studies for
over a century. In ancient times human sacrifice was instrumental in
transforming humanity from the small egalitarian groups of our ancestors, to
the large stratified societies we live in today.
Stratified means layered, which means division, whereas egalitarian means
believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve
equal rights and opportunities.
Division, suffering and death/bloodletting is what Christianity still
believes in, mostly in symbolic form, except where Jesus was concerned.
Jesus' sacrifice was for real. It was a barbaric human blood sacrifice,
which strangely goes against Christian values.
It's also rather strange that the much cherished symbol of Christianity, the
cross, is also the Roman form of torture used in Palestine. This all seems
quite sick.
It is widely believed by Christians (and only Christians) that God actually
wanted his son Jesus' bloody death to pay for God being offended by mere
human sin, which was based mostly just on ignorance. Does God, who knows,
sees and understands everything really have such fragile emotions, in fact
more fragile and unstable than most modern humans, that he'd get angry
enough to condemn the little creatures that he created and said were good,
but then brutally has his son killed instead to pay for it?
Something is very wrong with this religion and its god.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ajwerner/
Anyone or anything that sets itself up to be worshipped must be considered a
false god.
Anyone who has a master is a slave.
http://www.rumormillnews.com -- The best alternative news site.