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233 - Why Humans Sacrifice

The Symbolic World

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Human Sacrifice Is Part of Human Reality

In the ritualized sacrifice, you end up having different types of sacrifices. We don't understand that if you put something precious as the foundation of your home, if you sacrifice something precious in order to bind even a building together, then that will hold it. And it will hold it not through weird superstitious means. It will hold it through attention. It will holding it through the gnawing of and theres it can become quite subtle. I think that the story of christ has solved the problem of human sacrifice. Because there is something itchy about it. Now, i am not trying to defend human sacrifice. I obviously do not, do not believe in human sacrifice. But none

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