Zone1 The Biblical God destroyed human sacrifice.

[Votto]

The story of Genesis is unique to the Abrahamic religions. The Aztecs didn't know that story.


I guess it depended on your view of the afterlife. If it was a possibility, ending a life in this world just meant you moved on sooner and died a noble death appeasing your god.

Not just the Aztecs. All over the world these pagan religions were doing the exact same thing, human sacrifices.

Why?

Also, why did religions stop doing this if not the influence of the Biblical faith?

 

[Votto]

no ... abraham defied the heavens and sacrificed another being instead,




votto - toes the line for hereditary idolators, the jews - and paterfamilias to persecute and victimize the innocent by their contorted and nefarious desert religion.


- as a sacrifice for me ... not so either, all in the heavens are equal. the desert heretics are many - their documents are all the same.

The Jewish people were told not to embrace worshiping the pagan gods that sacrificed their children, but they later embraced them anyway. It was then that God sent judgement to them to be destroyed by both Assyria and later Babylon.

But he saved a remnant to keep the Biblical faith alive to later influence the world away from human sacrifice.

 

[Votto]

Today we all accept sacrificing humans as immoral, but in ancient times it was the exact polar opposite, except for those of the Biblical faith.

Why?

They sacrificed these people all for personal gain, whether it was for better crops, victory at war, or ironically enough fertility.

But today people still do it, all in the name of abortion on demand as most women have abortions for financial reasons.

Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives

Public discussion about abortion in the United States has generally focused on policy: who should be allowed to have abortions, and under what circumstances. Receiving less attention are the women behind the statistics—the 1.3 million women who obtain abortions each year1—and their reasons for...

www.guttmacher.org

People still sacrifice their children to the gods of economic prosperity, but they just rationalize they are not really human

There, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

 

[alang1216]

People are all born with a conscience, and as such, must answer for violating it.

Of course we should. The US killed tens of thousands of German and Japanese civilians in WWII, how should we answer for it?

The Abrahamic religions made it official regarding condemning murder, but it has not changed the fact people still violate religion's mandates against it like they did violate their conscience.

At least society can stop embracing murder thanks to the Abrahamic religions, which helps to reduce the numbers, that is, except for societies that have become secularized.

If religion has had an effect on killings, I haven't seen it.