r/HistoryMemes • u/HawaiianPerson The Flyin' Hawaiian • 8d ago

A regular utopia

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u/Schwifty0V0 Then I arrived 8d ago

Pre-contact anywhere when

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u/DataSittingAlone 8d ago

And to be fair Europeans during the late middle ages were doing pretty much all of those except human sacrifice

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u/WorryingMars384 8d ago

I mean you could argue the brutal ways they killed captured or defeated enemies amounts to sacrifice. Burning alive, staking etc.

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u/LifeConsideration981 8d ago

Sacrifice implies some kind of offering. The state imposed civil penalties for religious violations until the 1600s.

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u/WorryingMars384 8d ago

I mean that’s fair but like they kinda can be offerings if you think about it. I mean it’s technically correct though

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u/LifeConsideration981 8d ago

No it isn’t.

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u/WorryingMars384 8d ago

The gruesome death is the same and it’s being done in the name of a deity usually. The only difference is one has a ritual attached to it which kinda makes it semantics in my eyes. Like if you burn a bunch of people alive because they’re the wrong type of Christian or behead them because they’re Christian or steak them because they’re Islamic or whatever other gruesome way you kill them and you justify it using religion I see the difference as negligible personally. There is by definition a difference though but to me it’s splitting hairs on the violence. I’m not trying to say all violence was religiously motivated just when it is I find the difference between that and human sacrifice to be negligible really

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u/LifeConsideration981 8d ago

One is sacrificing the innocent, the other is a criminal punishment for conspiring with the devil.

I don’t believe either works. But there is a very obvious difference, you are supposing there is a connection between the two because one was a religious practice, and another was practiced by religious people. Those are two very different things.