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Date: 22 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Human Sacrifice
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Subject: Re: Human Sacrifice
>From: Orlando Fiol ofiol@earthlink.net
>Date: 8/22/00 6:15 AM EST
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>> I don't see it as something automatically to abhor. Jesus was a human
>> sacrifice. Every soldier who dies in battle is a human sacrifice. Every
>organ
>> donor who dies as a consequence of his/her donation is a human sacrifice.
>What
>> distinguishes a noble sacrifice from an ignoble, abhorrent one is simply
>this:
>> was it voluntary on the part of the victim. As practiced and sanctioned by
>the
>> Yoruba, indeed by many other African peoples, human sacrifice was of this
>noble
>> sort.
>Once again, we see the perspective that the goal of the sacrifice is to
>make things better for the people left behind, which is selfish and in
>blatant disregard for the life of the person or creature being
>sacrificed.
The sacrifice must be voluntary.
>This belief system even believed that human beings should be
>happy to sacrifice themselves for relatively trivial gains for the people
>left behind. Let the people left behind tend to their own troubles
>without sacrifices, human, animal or otherwise.
It is true that the warrior who is willing to die to defend the collective must
see the collective as being somehow greater than himself. Sometimes one is
willing to sacrifice oneself for the sake of one's child. Recall the Titanic:
there were not enough lifeboats for everyone to survive. Those who rushed to
save themselves at the expense of others didn't necessarily do themselves a lot
of good in the larger, karmic, scheme of things. Let me ask you this: would you
stop a bullet for your son?
>
>Orlando
>
Peace,
Grisso
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