I often wondered about the origin of child sacrifice. It seems like a stupid thing to do if a society wants to thrive.
But the reasoning was that you were not killing off all of your own children, just a firstborn or some of them. Still, the trend ended up being too many people doing it because crowd intelligence isn’t that high. The more I see, the more it appears like the twisted mirror image of the sacrifice of Christ.
>I often wondered about the origin of child sacrifice. It seems like a stupid thing to do if a society wants to thrive.
It’s a social status thing. The upper class wants to distinguish themselves from the lower classes so they pick a practice the lower classes find disgusting. Because the upper classes are doing the new practice, it becomes high status so the lower classes copy it, so the upper class has to find a new and more disgusting thing to do to distinguish themselves again. It’s a cycle that dying civilizations get themselves into when they’re no longer worried about external foes as the late Bronze age empires were.
You can see a similar pattern in our civilization as we decline and become pozed and degenerate.
A religion with sold morals is the solution to the problem which is why the Hebrews flourished and the people’s around them collapsed.