SweetSue92
Diamond Member
I'd forgotten your animus toward him. lolYupp.The core of the Christian religion is human sacrifice. If human sacrifice wasn't so popular, his death would not have been marketed that way.5. What, exactly, is the job requirement for working for Beelzebub?
“Human sacrifice is the act of killing one or more humans, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a ritual. Human sacrifice has been practiced in various cultures throughout history. Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner intended to please or appease gods, spirits or the deceased, for example, as a propitiatory offering or as a retainer sacrifice when a king's servants are killed in order for them to continue to serve their master in the next life. Closely related practices found in some tribal societies are cannibalism and headhunting.[1]
By the Iron Age, with the associated developments in religion (the Axial Age), human sacrifice was becoming less common throughout the Old World, and came to be looked down upon as barbaric in classical antiquity. In the New World, however, human sacrifice continued to be widespread to varying degrees until the European colonization of the Americas.”
Human sacrifice - Wikipedia
6. This is the major difference between worshiping God, and worship of the Lord of the Flies.
“ In Genesis 22, God tests Abraham's obedience by asking him to sacrifice Isaac, his only son. ... withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your ... Abraham knew or didn't know about the practice of human sacrifice ...
But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, 'Abraham! Abraham!' 'Here I am,' he replied. 12 Do not lay a hand on the boy,' he said. 'Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.'
No human sacrifices in the Judeo-Christian faith!
In the long history of Christian or Jewish martyrdom, there wasn't one person who killed another to be a martyr. But here was a theology of Muslim martyrdom where you kill innocent people and go to heaven and God will bless a terrible act like that. I have said to Muslims, 'You've got to condemn it' and they say 'I have condemned it.' But they don't condemn the theology behind it."
Phillips, “Londonistan,” p. 143
But.....there is a major 'religion' for which human sacrifice and slaughter of innocents is a hallmark....
....and the major political party in America embraces that cult, and endorses the sacrifice of the unborn.
Clear what they worship, huh?
Sacrificed himself...TO himself...to APPEASE himself for HIS creation's sins.
JuuuUUuUuSt about as psychotic as Donald Dufus
I see him as a guy who wanted to inject some spirituality into a hidebound religion that had forgotten its heart. Simple as that.
Both dead wrong. But of course Old Lady probably considers herself some form of Christian. Tragically.