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"I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler"
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RE: "I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler"
(February 25, 2011 at 1:06 pm)Rwandrall Wrote: Christianity also went against human and animal sacrifices for example. Again, nothing is all black or all white.

You mean aside from sacrificing the Christ child for the benefit of future generations, I presume. The relationship of blood sacrifice in Jewish and Christian theology, and specifically the emergent Christology of the first millennia is a complex and subtle one, but I think it takes an absurd distortion to claim that Jews around the time of Christ, including Christian Jews, had abandoned the notion of sacrifice -- human, animal and other. Jesus himself did not oppose the temple's practice of sacrifice, and the temple curtain tearing at the end of Christ's story has been persuasively argued as a shift in the nature of sacrifice -- not an abandonment of it. If anything, they didn't abandon sacrifice because they were against it, but because the ultimate human sacrifice had been made, and anything else cheapened that sacrifice. Nonetheless, I think that the concept of sacrifice for God is very much alive in Christendom, from tithing, martyrdom, and veneration of saints all the way to the chastity pledges of modern teenagers.
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RE: "I disagree with you, but i don't think you're Hitler" - by Angrboda - February 25, 2011 at 7:49 pm

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