#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny
The Martyr Made Podcast
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The Story of the Crucifixion of Jesus, by Rene Gerard
When we think of human sacrifice, most of us probably think of solemn ceremonies overseen by hooded figures in a moonlit grove. But when you go through the literature, one of the first things that really strikes you is how much of human sacrifice is all but indistinguishable to modern people from just simple psychotic murder. A defenceless person is set upon by a violent mob after a religious authority targets him as a source of evil threatening the community. Rene gerard would say that this is the same story, just from the standpoint of the killers. And it very often works like a charm. We see versions of this again and again, even into the modern world,. many were very familiar with
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