(September 15, 2012 at 1:08 am)Undeceived Wrote: Abel's sacrifice was accepted over Cain's because he gave out of love instead of duty.
Abels sacrifice was "accepted" over Cains because the culture that wrote the fairy tale valued their particular way of life over that of their agricultural neighbors. It served the purpose of value-commentary (with the official stamp of a god no less) for a people with a vested interest in herding animals. It also went a step further to try and claim the success of those neighbors for their own patron god in "the mark of cain", a curse of success and wealth. Learn your own fucking mythology so you don't butcher the only redeeming narratives, eh?
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