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This is a bit of a misreading. There was no human sacrifice in the Old
Testament. Those stories are mostly allegories or parables anyway. I don't
know too many Jews but more Christians who believe any of it.
Emet
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Charles Stegiel wrote:
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> There was a psychiatrist who was Jewish and he wrote a
> fascinating book on Abraham and Isaac arguing that the
> moment in human history where Abraham sacrificed the
> Ram instead of his son was a significant step forward
> for humanity. Surely it was even a greater step
> forward to move beyond animal sacrifice. Sadly,
> through the distancing capacity of modernity, we have
> slipped into technological barbarism. We raise our
> children with war toys and brutal images and think
> nothing of it.
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> Torturing animals in the name of science has a touch
> of the Buchenwald about it,
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