Quote of the Day
“Without understanding what creates floods and droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes and other natural disasters, we resorted to holding a slew of gods responsible for these unpredictable events, which mercilessly governed life and death. But believing in these gods and worshipping them was not enough – they needed to be propitiated. What more valuable sacrifice could we offer them than life itself – human life? It needs to be mentioned too that empathy and compassion for our fellow human beings and a social conscience as we know it today, was not all that well developed. This probably made it easier for us to sacrifice someone else so that we would live – after all, it was the powerful who decided who was going to be sacrificed. (We don’t know much about possible voluntarism of those to be sacrificed.) Fortunately, Abraham heard a voice telling him not to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and the first doubt was raised about the necessity of the barbaric and pagan practice of human sacrifice.” – Ursula Duba
Let me get this straight, Pagans were sub-human beings who didn’t possess the same powers of empathy due to the fact that some of them made human sacrifices. Human sacrifice is proof of a lack of humanity, but apparantly stoning a woman for adultery gets a pass.
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