Posted on 01/25/2022 6:42:54 AM PST by BusterDog
In the early phases of the pandemic, as the coronavirus spread in the United States and doctors and pharmacists and supermarket clerks continued to work and risk infection, some commentators made reference—metaphorical reference, fast and loose and over the top—to ritual human sacrifice. The immediate panicky focus on resuming business as usual in order to keep the stock market from crashing was the equivalent of “those who offered human sacrifices to Moloch,” according to the writer Kitanya Harrison. That first summer, as Republicans settled into their anti-testing, anti-lockdown, anti-mask, nothing-to-worry-about orthodoxy, Representative Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, said it was “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.” The anthropology professor Shan-Estelle Brown and the researcher Zoe Pearson wrote that people who continued to do their jobs outside their homes were essentially victims of “involuntary human sacrifice, made to look voluntary.” Meanwhile, people on the right likewise compared the inconvenience of closing down public places to ritual sacrifice.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Roe v Wade codified human sacrifice in all 50 states...
70,000,000 unborn human babies sacrificed, but that’s a GOOD thing, right Atlantis?
Nah. You Socialist Demoncrat abortionists and euthanasia enthusiasts have The Death Market cornered!
I think what these people fail to appreciate (or are hiding) is that a significant portion of the jab-resistance is on the far left. Those folks have been keeping fairly quiet—until recently.
well considering the mrna vaccines were developed using aborted baby parts,,I would say the pro-jab people are the ones doing human sacrifices,,,
The article is the “ritual sacrifice” of sanity.
Total word salad...
So the new progressive talking point is that keeping the populace fed, clothed and housed during the panick-demic was, “like a policy of mass human sacrifice.”
The mass formation psychosis clearly has hit the editors and writers of The Atlantic pretty hard.
And if Trump were still President this author would probably be writing the opposite. This vaccine was the devil back when he was President to the Left.
National Divorce is the answer.
I dont want to live in their world, and they don’t want to live in mine. Why stay together?
No Civil War, just Civil Separation.
Choose Freedom. Choose Peace.
According to the CDC’s own numbers, covid has a 99.74% survival rate...
...and the overwhelming number of people who died had four or more comorbidities...
Leftism is a death cult. Darkness, negativity, ingratitude and the destruction of all that is good, decent and valuable. Death.
Uh, hey atlantic..... Which ones are “anti-vax”? How about “anti-mandate”? As usual, steve jobs widow ain’t as bright as she thinks. But that seems standard for these uber rich assclowns. Is it guilt for being so wealthy that pushes them to belittle and work against conservative causes?
The wilder their claims, the closer we are to the end of their mass paranoia.
Leftism is also a stupidity cult.
They want to intimidate others into being as stupid as they are.
What a crock of shit.
The Atlantic must have a internal contest to create the most crazy attack on Americans.
This is fully on crazy.
The bigger surprise is the alignment of the far right and far left elements.
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