You do realize, of course, the parallels between Christianity, cannibalism, and human sacrifice?
Cannibalism is barely covered by a thin veneer of “civilization”.
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yes yes of course. the whole point of Jesus being the Son of God and therefor God himself—was that he is finally a sufficient sacrifice. God himself is a sufficient sacrifice in a way that no mortal man or critter could ever be.
That was why Jesus was so successfully able to address the ancient sacrificial system all over the world. he put an end to it because he himself—being God— was a sufficient sacrifice.
A human sacrifice in the end is no better than a chicken or pig for atonement of sins—that is, it does no good at all.
Everyone all over the world involved with the ancient system—when they came into contact with chritianity — understood that.
But there is a catch. Fall away from Christianity and the old rules apply—why? because chritianity is contra natura
It is no coincidence that the great atheist systems of the 20th century were the greatest killers.
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here is a dissenting opinion in an epistemological way:
Contrary to Nature
The proverbial man in the street may think that a miracle (like jesus) is “contrary” to nature; Augustine was more savvy: a miracle, he said, is an event contra quam est nota natura, i.e. contrary not to nature as such but to what is known of nature. Many (contemporary)scientists themselves, humbled before the inexplicable thereness and counter-intuitive bizareness of the world, and the incomplete and provisional nature of their knowledge of it, are happy with this definition and no longer dismiss miracles tout court as “impossible”...
contra natura= contrary to nature