233 - Why Humans Sacrifice
The Symbolic World
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The Human Sacrifice
There's something about killing some one else which is very different, like i said, from killing an animal. And so there is a manner in which it seems like in human culture there was something bubbling there wis something bubbling up to help us understand that this type of behavior is unacceptable. In the story of jesus christ, we see the ritual scapegoat sacrifice from the point of view of the one who is sacrificed,. The fact that we throw all the sins of the group on to one person is, of course, too much that person to bear. It actually collapses and completely resolved, in a manner, the reality of the scapegoat sacrifice.
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