Sacrifice

Watching an old movie on TV this morning, in one scene it has a man talking to an Aztec about how his gods are wrong because his gods offer sacrifices, and the man (a Christian) says that his god isn’t wrong because he says we should live, oh really?  

Clearly this Christian hasn’t read his Bible! Sacrifice (of the human kind) would seem to be at the very core of the Christian narrative? Throughout that book there are many examples of different (& weird) kinds of sacrifice, with animals (demon infected pigs), Abraham's son Isaac (even though that was a cop out and a test god already knew the answer to), lions dens etc.. Even today missionaries go into remote tribes and get killed, they see it as a noble to sacrifice for their god’s cause!

It seems to be a human constant that when the clergy class (or any ruling class) need to assert their power and get control of the unruly masses (for the purposes of harvesting resources) they often resort to violence, and excuse it by claiming that it's divinely inspired, they do the same when they need money. We have seen this throughout history in all societies and with most religions. Pagans, Aztecs, Christians, Muslims et al, acting out violence against "witches", Women, people of other faiths, other skin tones, and more recently gays, albinos and non-believers in the name of their gods, ancestors or even space aliens. It's all the same thing, violence in order to make people more submissive and mailable to exploitation.