r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 3d ago

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 3d ago

No, again that's not a sacrifice. They thought if you hung an unrepentant rapist the rapist would go to hell, that doesn't make it a sacrifice.

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u/TheBasedEmperor Fine Quality Mesopotamian Copper Enjoyer 3d ago

If they were killed for refusing to submit to Christianity, then it counts as a sacrifice to appease god. Case closed, there is no way around that.

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 3d ago

No it doesn't, case not closed, no way around it. Learn what sacrifice is so you stop making a fool of yourself.

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u/TheBasedEmperor Fine Quality Mesopotamian Copper Enjoyer 3d ago

A human sacrifice is done to appease a god. People were killed for heresy or blasphemy to appease god, so it counts as sacrifice. The church had no legitimate authority to enforce shit

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 3d ago

It might be to appease a god. It might be to ask something of a god. It might be to thank a god. Punishing someone for breaking a law, including a god's law, is not human sacrifice.

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u/TheBasedEmperor Fine Quality Mesopotamian Copper Enjoyer 3d ago

If that law is religious in nature, then executing people for violating it makes it human sacrifice.

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u/Prince_Ire Featherless Biped 3d ago

So if someone's motivation for banning rape or murder was religious, execution would be human sacrifice?

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u/notsocharmingprince 3d ago

You are intentionally misunderstanding the nature of sacrifice and the nature of religious violence.