Making the Appropriate Sacrifices Has the Propitiates God, Let's Say Metaphorically

"He makes sacrifices, which the text insists upon, and the sacrifices are reward ed by god," he says. "That's like, i don't know, if that's not the major discovery of mankind ... It's certainly among the top one or two." He adds: "If we give up something that we want right now, we can sort of bargain with fate to get something better in the future"...