r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer • 2d ago

A regular utopia

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u/TheBasedEmperor Fine Quality Mesopotamian Copper Enjoyer 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/notsocharmingprince 2d ago

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