What accounts for the fact that many old religions had human or other sacrifice as part of their ritual?
The Death penalty is a human sacrifice
but is the modernized sterilized version encased in half false moral hypocrisy's used to support failed cultural and social ideology
& install fear into the general public.
muslims ritualistically kill animals before they eat them
so all animals for food are sacrificial living creatures given to their god
there may be some examples of gifting dead animals to gods in some other religions where they give food offerings
however i suspect most of those are all in vegetarian religions
both Asian & African cultures practice animal sacrifice as a normal part of their modern life and culture.
Cock(& dog & baiting) fighting is probably a good sign of that shared moral ideology as an easily observable statistical representation
it is quite a complicated subject
if your unable to comprehend the larger picture of the human mind
then discussing technical specifics becomes less than pointless
it becomes a form of indoctrinated cult language which creates false ideologies
so i am somewhat reluctant to get into any real technical discussion on the subject
subjective moral horror is a propaganda tool used by extremists and the far right continually,
the far left tend not to use moral horror
you can argue the nazi party to be far left or far right
they were far right pretending to be middle left
nazis practice human sacrifice as part of their culture & ideology
aside from any genocidal aspects
genocide is a different subject
american culture has some enshrined practices of human sacrifice inside their modernized culture
that is endorsed and supported through other cultural aspects
American Nazis lynching black people is human sacrifice
they are not practicing genocide
it is selective human sacrifice to install terrorism on society
to create moral and social horror
the modern question is currently
"button pressure executioners" as a form of denial of life for population control as human mass culls
that drives a majority of political policy and ideologies in most countrys
usa for an example endorses human sacrifice of poor people through denial of health care
it is a conscious moral culture choice the American people make
political ideology is manufactured to define
"competition of the fittest as survival of the fittest"
this ideology is shared supported and promoted by a lot of american church groups
those American church groups make up the majority of liberal conservatives supporting the republican party
soo there is your cause and effect of modernized human sacrifice as a American christian model
sold as a political ideology
enshrined in religion and sold as liberal personal freedom
this is why the American mainstream church groups so strongly support the death penalty
to maintain the moral validity of human sacrifice
It all sounds circular. People invented gods to explain things and invented sacrifices to gain favors from these inventions.
simple explanations that allow people to sell off their guilt via moral proxy is common
but a practice for fools and cannon fodder
the reality is far more complicated
Tiassa could school you on some both-sides-isms social moral influential indoctrination which supports and maintains these aspects
(he has posted various comments over the last few years touching on the subject[which he knows well] if you paid attention but its a technical subject and most do not have the mind or stomach for the intellectual entertainment of the subject in its real functional form) however that subject is probably too technical for the vast majority.
