Atheist Quotes ·
Michael Binetti · t10m2mu6o557u1itt64h09tg ·
We shutter at the thought of the Maya, Aztecs or Incas cutting the hearts out of a living human being to appease their gods, but don’t even flinch at the thought of someone being nailed alive to a cross and left to die a slow agonizing death to appease the Christian god. The barbarism and ruthlessness of both of these acts are not mutually exclusive and choosing to believe one to be righteous and the others to be deplorable is selective morality for the same atrocity. You can’t pick and choose your morality simply to justify your bias.
Human sacrifice has been with our species for as long as we have been on this planet and almost no culture has been exempt from this evil; The Sumerians, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Canaanites, Maya, Aztecs, Inca, Olmecs, Greeks, Romans, Carthaginians, Teutons, Celts, Druids, Vikings, Gauls, Hindus, Thais, Chinese, Japanese, Maoris, Melanesians, Tahitians, Hawaiians, Balinese, Australian Aborigines, Iroquois, Huron, Cherokee, and innumerable other societies ritually murdered their fellow human being because they believed that invisible gods and goddesses, having an appetite for human flesh, could be so appeased. The people that performed these barbaric rituals believed that what they were doing was no less insane then Christians accepting Jesus being nailed and left to parish on a cross. Even though it’s obvious to us today that these gruesomely futile acts of barbarism throughout the ages were nothing more than the actions of a primitive ignorant superstitious people.
It’s only when you take off the blinders and look at each objectively that it becomes obvious that these are all religions that celebrate death. And there have been hundreds of such faiths throughout the ages with Christianity being no different from other religions of human sacrifice. Why is it so hard for people to see the correlations? Some Christians have become so numb in their rationalizations and so conditioned to not confront or question anything about their faith that they can’t even see it nor would they ever accept it even if it stood up and bit them right in the face.