You Can Read It Politically or Culturally

Every society seems to s the skids of internal cohesion by projecting its collective hatred and hostility out onto another. Every culture has skeletons hiding in plain sight, which if you strip them of the familiarity that we've developed for them over a lifetime would appear monstrous as they often are. A good part of western civilization gets together weekly to vicariously practised what is arguably the single most powerful taboo we still have in place. And almost nobody seems all that concerned about the fact that those christians all gather on sundays to worship a victim of torture and execution,. and then and to eat his flesh and drink his blood.